Re: [PATCH 1/10] Cr4 is valid on some 486s

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> 
> i.e. something like this (as basic idea, patch is far away from doing anything
> useful ...)?

Can't work. The altinstructions are in init-code/data, and will be free'd 
after boot. Which is as it should be. But it means that any setup that 
expects to use them to switch back and forth is broken (not that your 
patch does so now, but if that's what you are moving toward..)

		Linus
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