* 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/