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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 2/24] i386 Vmi config
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> And, the last thing, distributor kernels are often compiled for i586 to
> be generic to all users. But some users may actually run them on i686,
> and these users would like to have VMI (speculation :-). Which would
> include a forceful patch to Kconfig to have the VMI option available
> with CONFIG_M586.
>   

We can reenable all these things eventually.  We hacked them out to get 
around some of the awful hacks required for these older machines, (F00F 
bug protection, broken APICs, etc).
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