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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > >     if(vendor!=INTEL && !has_apic)
> > >             /* No SMP */
> >
> >  And suddenly certain i486 systems do not work anymore?  Well, I haven't
> 
> i486 is an intel processor
> 

... but doesn't announce itself as such.

> >       if (boot_cpu_id != -1U
> >           && APIC_INTEGRATED(apic_version[boot_cpu_id]) && !has_apic)
> >               /* No SMP */
> >
> > It should filter broken MP-tables and work fine on all 82489DX-based
> > systems.  I'll have a patch soon if we agree on this solution.
> 
> we could try that. It doesnt seem unreasonable

Seems reasonable enough.

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