On Thu, 1 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

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> On Thu, 1 May 2008 13:24:34 -0400
> Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> > ... and maybe we can't solve hardware bugs.
>
> Many, many of these are regressions.  If old-linux works on that
> hardware then new-linux can too.
>
> (still wants to know what we did 2-3 years ago which caused thousands of
> people to have to resort to using noapic and other apic-related boot option
> workarounds)

Perhaps 2-3 years ago more people started using more hardware that
implements APIC. ;-)

-- Steve

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