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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:58:25 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Futexes IV (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores)
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> So if anything its just not worth the effort of breaking the 
> 386 setup either 8). 386 SMP is a different issue but I don't 
> see any lunatics doing a 386 based sequent port thankfully.

Hey, don't count it out ... someone was emailing me a week or
two ago, asking what the internal structure of a Sequent Symmetry 
was, so that they could get Linux running on it. OK, so they gave 
up when I gave them an outline of what was in there, but ... ;-)

M.

PS. No I'm not suggesting we should support 386 SMP ;-)

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