Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 22:10:41 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dyson@dyson.iquest.net, current@freebsd.org, markm@iafrica.com Subject: Re: 3.0-current Kernel panicking on bootup Message-ID: <199612070310.WAA02962@dyson.iquest.net> 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
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