problems with xen and kmodule

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:42:19PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Xen doesn't implement the vm86 support as yet.  It's useful to enumerate
>> the packages that require it and what they're needed for.
>
> Still, kmodules shouldn't lock the boot process just by lack of vm86
> support, should it?

Interesting, on my test system (toshiba tecra laptop) kmodule
gives an oops on startup.  I wasn't aware it could get into
an infinite loop, too...

I'll try Xen on other systems to try and figure out what is
going on exactly.  Kmodule is near the top of my TODO list ;)

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