> That certainly does suggest a bug in the SEE patches. They needn't do > anything useful on IA32/AMD64, but they should presumably either (a) not > cause a bootstrap failure on these architectures, or (b) be disabled on > these architectures.
Agree. I will check the bootstrapping on x86. (a) seems preferable but if not feasible in a short time frame, it will be (b). Mircea