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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/10] Cr4 is valid on some 486s
    On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:14:29AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > Dave Jones wrote:
    > >On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:06:03PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    > >
    > > > > You still need to preserve the originals so that you can patch in
    > > both > > directions.
    > > >
    > > > why do you insist on both directions? That still sounds like real
    > > > overkill to me.
    > >
    > >cpu hotplug going from UP to SMP ? :)
    > >
    >
    > If you have CPU hotplug enabled, you can run SMP code!

    Sure, but if you boot with 1 CPU, spinlocks get nop'd to emulate UP,
    and on a 'installed a new cpu' hotplug event, they all come back.

    Dave

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