Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:13:15 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > and I really don't think that changing the help text is the right solution > here. It may be "technically correct", but it is simply not user-friendly > or smart. >
The issue at hand is that at least with the current toolchain, we need to pass -march=generic in order for these instructions to be generated. We have an option for this, CONFIG_X86_GENERIC, which distributions really *should* be using anyway.
And yes, it should be the default. The patch I have makes it "default y" as well as change the help text.
Would it make you happier if this option was forced enabled unless CONFIG_EMBEDDED was on?
-hpa
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