Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964859AbVKOQ14 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:27:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964868AbVKOQ14 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:27:56 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:60112 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964859AbVKOQ1z (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:27:55 -0500 Message-ID: <437A0C88.50207@suse.de> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:27:52 +0100 From: Gerd Knorr User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones Cc: Linus Torvalds , 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 References: <4374FB89.6000304@vmware.com> <20051113074241.GA29796@redhat.com> <4378A7F3.9070704@suse.de> <4379ECC1.20005@suse.de> <437A0649.7010702@suse.de> <20051115161656.GB1749@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20051115161656.GB1749@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 890 Lines: 26 Dave Jones wrote: > 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. Good point, so better place the ones we need at runtime into a separate table ... > Hmmm, what about modules ? We'll need some new fields in struct module ... Is already on the list in my head, but I didn't bother yet for that proof-of-concept discussion patch ;) Gerd - 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/