On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> 
> I finally found the reason why 386es have trouble booting the 2.4.0 kernel:

Good job.

> Pentiums are only lucky to not crash because they have a bigger TLB than 386s.

Actually, with the 4M pages, it's not a question of luck any more - they
just don't _have_ this bug, because on a machine with 4M pages the
"cpu_has_pse" case handles this all and the buggy code is never actually
entered.

Which explains why you'd only see this on a 386 (and I suspect your TLB
size explanation is what saved some i486-class machines, although later
i486 machines will have PSE as well).

	Thanks,

		Linus

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