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SubjectRe: 2.2.0pre1 OOPS on boot.

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> We only have a few differences to address in the near time scale, excepting
> the 386.
>
> FPU <-> no FPU
> RDTSC <-> mb timer
> FXSAVE <-> FSAVE
>
> FXSAVE is figured, RDTSC _was_ sorted, FPU has long been sorted.

add INVLPG and (future) FASTCALL (two versions) to the list. Also add the
'wp bit doesnt work' bug workaround, the APIC workarounds. Some of these
can be addressed dynamically (by adding kernel bloat to handle both
versions), some cannot.

-- mingo



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