Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:50:07 -0500 | Subject | Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch 01/20] cell: add RAS support | From | Olof Johansson <> |
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:26:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 17:43, Olof Johansson wrote: > > > > > This is a first version of support for the Cell BE "Reliability, > > > Availability and Serviceability" features. > > > > Does it really make sense to do this under a config option? I don't see > > why anyone would not want to know that their machine is about to melt. > > > You can only have that when running on bare metal. Machines that run > on a hypervisor can't run that code.
Well, it's harmless to build it in even on hypervisor systems, right?
> It probably makes sense to auto-select that option for CONFIG_CELL_BLADE > though.
Sounds like a reasonable trade-off.
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