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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: 3.0-current Kernel panicking on bootup
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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.

Bruce