From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_X86_APIC_OFF for i386/UP
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:46:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050128174613.GP6703@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501281038480.22906@montezuma.fsmlabs.com>
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > Forgive me for not wading through the code, but it really needs to
> > > be spelt out in the comments: what's wrong with the existing kernel,
> > > with "noapic nolapic" in the distro's bootstring by default?
> >
> > It's harder to explain and traditionally in LILO you couldn't remove
> > any options (in grub you can now). I think it makes much more sense
> > to have an positive option for this too, not a negative one.
>
> Well new distributions with 2.6 most probably aren't using LILO and if
> you're running 2.6 with some ancient distro you can add commandline
> options yourself.
Ok, thanks for the constructive feedback. I withdraw the patch then
and will continue to maintain it in private.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-28 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-28 13:39 [PATCH] Add CONFIG_X86_APIC_OFF for i386/UP Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 14:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-28 14:30 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 15:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-28 15:18 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 15:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-28 15:49 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 17:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-28 17:43 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-01-28 17:46 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-01-28 18:30 ` Hugh Dickins
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