Re: [Syllable-kernel] Arno's kernel patches

[Kristian V. D. V. <va...@li...>]

On Friday 28 January 2005 03:26, Jake Hamby wrote:
> Also, what is the verdict as far as the stability of Arno's patches?
> Did the Jan. 23 patch removing the cli()/put_cpu_flags() calls make
> things better or worse?  I'm concerned about Vander's reports of
> instability during compiles and I'd much rather have a stable kernel
> that only works on some machines than a kernel that boots on more
> machines but isn't reliable.

It fixed booting on SMP (& HT) machines at the expense of stability on SMP and 
uni machines.  I wouldn't consider it a suitable final patch for inclusion in 
the next release of Syllable without further work to stabalise it.

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