From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
ak@suse.de, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:58:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4703CA28.9010609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4703161E.8040603@zytor.com>
On 10/03/2007 12:10 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> Maybe we can/should merge the doc files along with the x86 arch merge.
>>
>
> Well, the x86 merge is pretty much mechanical. It should be followed up
> with a lot of manual merging.
>
It would be really nice if identical kernel parameters used the same names,
so people didn't waste their time trying e.g. "nolapic_timer" on x86_64
because that option fixed their problems on i386 (it's "noapictimer" in
x86_64.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-03 1:34 [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters Jeff Garzik
2007-10-03 2:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-03 2:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-03 3:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-03 4:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-03 4:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-03 16:58 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-10-04 9:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 15:50 ` Chuck Ebbert
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