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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:37:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and the real hardware
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> Perhaps the original 9atom install kernel was not optimal for my
> motherboard or so. After compiling the CPU kernel all worked well.
> However I will switch back to the original Plan9 distribution this
> evening.

it's not optimized for any particular pc hardware.
it does however have various changes to fix problems
that cropped up and work around some pecualarities
of ich7 and poorly constructed mp tables.

by the way, the way to turn dma on is with "dmaon".

- erik