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Subject: Re: VM86, VESA support in SMP 
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:53:10 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>In reply to Kazutaka YOKOTA who wrote:
>> The VESA BIOS support initially didn't work in the SMP box because of
>> some bugs in VM86 code.
>> 
>> Now that they seem to be fixed, do anybody still see problems?  I
>> certainly have no trouble in my SMP box.
>
>I still run with the patch in kern_clock.c, but I'm not sure its
>needed anymore, besides that it works just fine...

Oh.  I have that patch too in my box.  I nearly fotgot :-)

I recall tegge said that he was thinking of a better way of fixing
this, but I don't think we have seen the fix being committed to the
source tree.

We had better keep the LINT file as it is...

Kazu

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