Subject: Re: [CFT,PATCH] cpu detection for 2.6.5-rc1-mm2
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 19:56, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> xHi all,
> 
> 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 contains new slab code that is more memory efficient by 
> setting (and thus reducing) the alignment of the objects based on the 
> actual cpu cache line size. This means that the cpu identification must 
> be done far earlier than before and that caused the boot problems with 
> 2.6.5-mm1.
> 
> Attached is a new proposal against 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 - could you give it a 
> try? It's tested with Pentium 4, bochs (i.e. Intel Pentium) and Athlon 
> XP cpus.

Works fine here where 2.6.5-rc1-mm1 failed miserably ;-)

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