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Message-ID: <4B3BBCDC.5010806@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:49:32 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@...mail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Happy birthday Linus!

On 12/30/2009 10:27 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yes, I did. In fact, I bought one purely for Linux development, so that I
> could test the code to do i387 error handling (which is non-trivial,
> because an IBM PC/AT hooks up the i387 in a non-standard way - not the way
> Intel designed it directly to the CPU, but instead through the interrupt
> controller)
>    

Or rather, Intel designed it in a non-standard way, different from the 
way IBM implemented it later.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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