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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/11] Fix PIT override bug for paravirt
Date: 6 Feb 2007 13:30:23 +0100
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:30:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070206123023.GE47229@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702060353.l163r2hU000745@zach-dev.vmware.com>

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:53:02PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> The time initialization changed for i386 when some code moved into time_init.
> This made it no longer possible to override the PIT / HPET, which broke
> paravirt guests.

Looks still fragile. Can this be done cleaner? 

In particularly some comments would be good, but clearer code 
logic would be preferred.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06  3:53 [PATCH 5/11] Fix PIT override bug for paravirt Zachary Amsden
2007-02-06 12:30 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-02-07  0:54   ` Zachary Amsden

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