Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964856AbVKOQeV (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:34:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964888AbVKOQeV (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:34:21 -0500 Received: from mailout1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.130]:22801 "EHLO mailout1.vmware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964856AbVKOQeU (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:34:20 -0500 Message-ID: <437A0E08.103@vmware.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:34:16 -0800 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Dave Jones , "H. Peter Anvin" , Gerd Knorr , Linus Torvalds , Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Zwane Mwaikambo , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/10] Cr4 is valid on some 486s References: <4378A7F3.9070704@suse.de> <4379ECC1.20005@suse.de> <437A0649.7010702@suse.de> <437A0710.4020107@vmware.com> <1132070764.2822.27.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051115161041.GA1749@redhat.com> <437A0965.7020909@zytor.com> <20051115161949.GC1749@redhat.com> <1132071933.2822.30.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1132071933.2822.30.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Nov 2005 16:34:18.0910 (UTC) FILETIME=[6CFA3BE0:01C5EA02] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 18 Arjan van de Ven wrote: >the good news is that all hotplugable x86 cpus will have HT or dual core >support.. so you always work in pairs of 2 > > While there are good arguments for a pure SMP hardware world, there are good arguments in the virtualization world for virtual uniprocessors. No one can be sure which combination of HT / polycore / package isolation we will end up with, but we can be sure that legacy systems will be around for longer than anyone wants to think about. As this CR4 valid on 486s patch proves :) - 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/