Re: First cut x86 machine description

[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)]

> I agree with everything you listed, but I would like to ask, do we need to
> include this text, or is it being included by one of the references we
> already have? Do you think that the references in chapters 3-5 (once written
> out more formally) are sufficient, or are they too confusing?

Some of it (like page sizes and checking for MMX at run not install time etc
and the FPU stuff are not I think covered by non Linux documents. Im  not
sure where this text (or the pieces of it diced up) want to go in your document
itself. 

Alan