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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: 3.0-current Kernel panicking on bootup
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 22:10:41 -0500 (EST)
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dyson@dyson.iquest.net, current@freebsd.org,
        markm@iafrica.com
In-Reply-To: <199612070133.MAA10409@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Dec 7, 96 12:33:51 pm
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> 
> >> >Those that use LKM's, will have a perf hit.  Kind of like shared libs.
> >> 
> >> I think it needs to be a positive option so that it fails safely.
> >> 
> >Okay, then make it conditional on the various processors that support
> >it?  As opposed to the processor that doesn't?
> 
> No.  Many configurations, e.g. GENERIC, have support for all x86 processors.
> 
That means that people who run GENERIC won't get the advantage
of disabling the 386.  So what?

John