Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:43:53 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:09:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> Under that logic we shouldn't even have CPU configurables, since you want it >>> to "just work" whatever crap you're running on. That is EXACTLY what >>> CONFIG_X86_GENERIC means >> I dunno.. Event he help-text doesn't actually agree with that: > > The help text matches in how I wrote this option originally. > The original use case was the 128 byte P4 cache lines. >
The help text is indeed out of date. I did a patch yesterday to, among other things, update it; I also want to verify that we are disabling all options that can cause gcc or binutils to generate nopl's; I plan to push it today.
-hpa
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