From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754826AbXJCQ74 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:59:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751291AbXJCQ7s (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:59:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44325 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227AbXJCQ7s (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:59:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4703CA28.9010609@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:58:16 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Randy Dunlap , Jeff Garzik , ak@suse.de, LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters References: <20071003013413.GA17717@havoc.gtf.org> <20071002192209.09b2fbda.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4702FEC7.3000000@garzik.org> <20071002210125.85b84add.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4703161E.8040603@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4703161E.8040603@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.)