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    SubjectRe: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies

    On Thu, 1 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

    > On Thu, 1 May 2008 13:24:34 -0400
    > Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:
    >
    > > ... and maybe we can't solve hardware bugs.
    >
    > Many, many of these are regressions. If old-linux works on that
    > hardware then new-linux can too.
    >
    > (still wants to know what we did 2-3 years ago which caused thousands of
    > people to have to resort to using noapic and other apic-related boot option
    > workarounds)

    Perhaps 2-3 years ago more people started using more hardware that
    implements APIC. ;-)

    -- Steve



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