From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758369AbXJDPvq (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:51:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756179AbXJDPvh (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:51:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:40200 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756054AbXJDPvg (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:51:36 -0400 Message-ID: <47050BC5.6060306@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:50:29 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Randy Dunlap , Jeff Garzik , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document x86-64 iommu kernel parameters References: <20071003013413.GA17717@havoc.gtf.org> <4703161E.8040603@zytor.com> <4703CA28.9010609@redhat.com> <200710041101.46794.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200710041101.46794.ak@suse.de> 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 10/04/2007 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.