* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > Environment: Pre Pentium systems, (boot_cpu_data.wp_works_ok == 0)
>
> This shouldn't be "pre-pentium", afaik. WP-works-ok on i486 too. I
> think only the original i386 had this bug ("feature").
>
> But I agree, it does seem to be broken on such machines (I assume you
> don't actually have one, but just tested by forcing it by hand ;)
actually, AFAIK this is a genuine i386 box Thomas has (an embedded
board). Our hardware legacies and the resulting dependencies _really_
stick around for quite long time :-/
Ingo
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