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Message-ID: <472E51C1.5080800@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:12:01 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix i486 boot failure due to stale %ds

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Yes, that's what the spec says.  I queried this a few months ago, but
> hpa used his convincing voice and said that in practice it isn't
> necessary; there are no known cpus which need this, and any that do
> would cause other things to break.  But I guess now we have the
> counter-example...
> 

Yup.  I owe you a beverage :)

	-hpa
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