From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:50:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47050BC5.6060306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710041101.46794.ak@suse.de>
On 10/04/2007 05:01 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Well the x86-64 option was there first; you have to ask whoever
> added the i386 option why they used a different name
>
> But I normally added aliases as people reported them. Nobody did in
> this case.
>
> One reason is probably that noapictimer is not very useful on x86-64 --
> the nolapic_timer is really more a workaround that only started making
> sense on HRT because it made "apicmaintimer" default.
> On current x86-64 which doesn't do that there is very little reason to use it
> and you'll usually just break things.
>
I have HRT in my x86_64 kernel. I guess that patchset should add the alias.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 15:51 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
2007-10-04 9:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 15:50 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
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