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From(Alan Cox)
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Cyrix setup
DateMon, 9 Mar 1998 13:12:50 +0000 (GMT)
> 	- Suspend on halt: Do we really need to set it up during kernel
> boot? The example posted earlier mentioning system which died of overheating
> before it reached the rc scripts doesn't seem to be important from my
> point of view as it's certainly a HW problem and a machine suffering from
> such problems won't go reliably anyhow.

The reliability reason is a bit silly. However it is true that all other
CPU's default to hlt mode on and nohlt disables its use..

> 	- NO_LOCK (Coma bug workaround): Does anyone have a working solution
> (Alan mentioned the original one broke some X servers)?

There is one. I think I have it saved somewhere, it does some magic in/out
operations on the chip to serialise xchg

Alan


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