From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux@sandersweb.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:43:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C54839.8050304@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080908154535.GL26079@one.firstfloor.org>
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The help text is indeed out of date.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-31 18:22 [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC David Sanders
2008-08-31 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-31 19:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-31 19:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-05 15:38 ` David Sanders
2008-09-05 16:15 ` Jan Beulich
2008-09-05 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-05 18:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-05 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-05 19:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-05 20:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-05 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-05 17:55 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-31 20:03 ` David Sanders
2008-09-01 20:23 ` David Sanders
2008-09-01 22:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-02 12:08 ` David Sanders
2008-09-02 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-02 18:44 ` David Sanders
2008-09-03 11:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-03 11:20 ` David Sanders
[not found] ` <48C1C156.9080003@zytor.com>
2008-09-07 20:07 ` David Sanders
2008-09-07 23:22 ` David Sanders
2008-09-08 1:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 2:49 ` David Sanders
2008-09-08 4:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 9:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 13:25 ` David Sanders
2008-09-08 15:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 15:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-08 15:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 15:38 ` David Sanders
2008-09-08 15:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 15:45 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 15:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-09-08 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 15:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 15:57 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 15:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 16:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 16:26 ` David Sanders
2008-09-08 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 16:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 17:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-08 16:34 ` david
2008-09-08 16:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 18:51 ` david
2008-09-08 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:00 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 17:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 17:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 17:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 19:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 22:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:18 ` Andi Kleen
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