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On 08/25/09 12:37, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Is there any reason to run this test at all on Xen?  It's only needed
> for real 386 and some broken 486 processors.
>   

Yeah.  We could easily set boot_cpu_data.wp_works_ok and bypass the
test, but I think its highlighting some other bug.

    J