Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies

Andrew Morton
2008-05-01T19:28:13Z

On Thu, 1 May 2008 13:24:34 -0400
Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> ... and maybe we can't solve hardware bugs.

Many, many of these are regressions. If old-linux works on that
hardware then new-linux can too.

(still wants to know what we did 2-3 years ago which caused thousands of
people to have to resort to using noapic and other apic-related boot option
workarounds)