This clarifies the P5 behaviour and documents the related boot arguments,
as suggested by Alan and Dave J. respectively.
Patch against 2.4.19p2.
Paul.
--- Documentation/Configure.help~ Sun Mar 3 05:04:18 2002
+++ Documentation/Configure.help Sun Mar 3 05:56:49 2002
@@ -17666,8 +17666,12 @@
ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine.
Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the
flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems
- have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - for these and
- old non-MCE processors (386, 486), say N. Otherwise say Y.
+ have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is
+ disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce"
+ as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a
+ problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce"
+ to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like
+ the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here.
Toshiba Laptop support
CONFIG_TOSHIBA
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