Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751036AbVKOQNa (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:13:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751444AbVKOQNa (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:13:30 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:42217 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751036AbVKOQN3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:13:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:12:36 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Gerd Knorr cc: Dave Jones , Zachary Amsden , Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "H. Peter Anvin" , Zwane Mwaikambo , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/10] Cr4 is valid on some 486s In-Reply-To: <437A0649.7010702@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <200511100032.jAA0WgUq027712@zach-dev.vmware.com> <20051111103605.GC27805@elf.ucw.cz> <4374F2D5.7010106@vmware.com> <4374FB89.6000304@vmware.com> <20051113074241.GA29796@redhat.com> <4378A7F3.9070704@suse.de> <4379ECC1.20005@suse.de> <437A0649.7010702@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 675 Lines: 18 On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > i.e. something like this (as basic idea, patch is far away from doing anything > useful ...)? Can't work. The altinstructions are in init-code/data, and will be free'd after boot. Which is as it should be. But it means that any setup that expects to use them to switch back and forth is broken (not that your patch does so now, but if that's what you are moving toward..) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/