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From: Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org>
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
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Subject: Re: MacBook users: possible fix for the SMP problem
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Hi Rui,

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:59:28PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> Note: this is still a hack. I'm still thinking about a way to  
> correctly identify on which systems we need to apply this fix.

This indeed looks hackikly - I don't know whether it's possible to
distinguish between a 'normal' PC or a MacBook - but if this is not
possible, maybe a kernel option is in order?

-- 
Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
"root is always right" -- the kernel