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From: "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: softupdates/smp
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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 
> It works reliably on my SMP box at home.
> 
> Perhaps your SMP motherboard is working around the 8254 not via APIC
> bug, or you have some other board-specific attribute?
> 
> 

The motherboards in question are a Tyan Tomcat IIID and IVD - both 
tombstone in softupdates code right after going SMP. Others on the list 
had indicated the same kind of tombstone in other areas so I (at the 
moment) ascribe this to a recent added kernel feature :-) I haven't tried 
today's world with SMP+softupdates yet...

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