Comment 31 for bug 26859

(In reply to comment #30)
> Fabio,
>
> Suggestion for you. Over the weekend I tried to deploy a revised version of
> Mandriva Linux 2006, which they posted on their Members-only mailing list in
> December. Unfortunately the original bugs are still there, so they have more
> work to do. _However_, it did occur to me that you/we might benefit from the
> fact that Mandriva 2006 does not display any problems with supporting the AMD64
> chipset in an SMP environment. [Their bugs are with their own code. lol].

This bug is long enough as it is. Let's keep it on topic. None of your
suggestions have anything to do with the problem this bug report is meant to
help fix. The problem, as Fabio has almost concluded is likely a regression in
binutils. Figuring that out had nothing to do with what other distributions are
doing, since we did not have this problem just a couple of kernel revisions ago.
Looking at the other distros wouldn't have helped us figure this out either.

As for the detection issues, those are installer problems, and not anything to
do with amd64 specifically, and way off topic for this bug report.