Bad F0 0F workaround (Was: Re: Linux install hangs hard on kernelload)

[Codie William Masters]

On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 01:21, Kevin Brown wrote:
> That is weird.  I just checked "make menuconfig".  I could have sworn that in
> the same menu section as processor selection was also the F0 0F workaround (in
> the 2.2.X kernel), now under 2.4.17 it seems to have disappeared (tried
> selecting the following 3 options, one after the other: 586, Pentium Classic,
> Pentium MMX).  In all cases the workaround never showed up.

Good (kinda), I'm glad I'm not just seeing things. Looking at the source
it seems to be there but am I mistaken?