Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2008 15:39:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies |
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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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