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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.

      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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