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SubjectRe: [patch] i386: early pagefault handler
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Ar Mer, 2006-07-05 am 09:54 -0700, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds:
> Anybody with that old a CPU will have learnt to to say "no-hlt" or
> whatever the kernel command line is, and we could probably retire the
> silly old hlt check (which I'm not even sure really ever worked).

The one specific case I know precisely details of was the Cyrix 5510. A
hlt by the CPU on that chipset during an IDE DMA transfer hangs the
system forever.

Its some years since I've even seen a 5510 and that check could be
automated anyway

Alan

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