Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:16:56 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
       Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/10] Cr4 is valid on some 486s
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:12:36AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > 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. 

Hmmm, what about modules ?

		Dave

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