Re: Cyrix "coma bug" fix was deleted from pre-2.3.10-4

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:27:41 +0100 (BST)


> In which case can it at least still shout about the bug when it finds it?
> People who were used to the 2.2 behaviour will get a bit of shock when 2.4
> materialises.

Most 2.2 kernels don't do that check from my memory. It was added during 2.2.x

> Also, does this mean the distributions (e.g. Redhat? :) are going to detect
> the CPU type on start-up and run set6x86 appropriately? No, I didn't think
> so..

If they don't stick a bug report in developer.redhat.com/bugzilla, simple as
that.

Alan

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