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Subject: Re: TSCs are a no-no on i386
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
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> Hopefully there are not too many SMP-486 machines out there ;-).

The mach-voyager subarchitecture code in 2.6 is designed to be able to
boot an SMP 486 system.  I actually have (or rather have the cards to
build) a 5-way 486 system.  (Although the cpu's were all certified as
having correct cmpxchg semantics).

James