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pavel@ucw.cz said:
> It would be nice to make it preempt/smp safe, through. [SMP notebooks
> are not so unreasonable; think p4 hyperthreading]. 

They are here. The code that is protected by cli() and friends does not
run on any anything more fancy than a Pentium. As I recall nothing but
mobile P90 in a Portage 610CT and a mobile P120 in a Tecra 700CDT/CDS.

JAB.

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