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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:15:03 -0700
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:42:53PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> 
> Perhaps we should have a boot environment variable to disable
> ia64_mca_save_state() until we resolve this.

I don't think we're missing important functionality if we just
compile-out the MCA bits for now. It saves the overhead of
adding boot options...

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net