From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [X86] Add a boot parameter to force-enable PAT
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 00:42:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483353DB.7010708@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48334EFA.3070109@zytor.com>
On 21-05-08 00:21, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rene Herman wrote:
>>> +}
>>> +__setup("enablepat", x86_forcepat_setup);
>>
>> This should probably be called plain "pat" to mirror arch/x86/mm/pat.c
>> "nopat" force off parameter. That by the way is an early_param which I
>> guess this should then also be?
>>
>
> Either that or "pat={off,on,force}" to give space for other options...
> would mean keeping "nopat" around as an alias for now, though...
Yes, that would be nicer. As to the alias; "nopat" hasn't been in a
released kernel yet so should be okay to do away with? It's not like
it's in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt or anything... ;-/
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-20 4:09 [X86] Add a boot parameter to force-enable PAT Dave Jones
2008-05-20 5:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-20 13:23 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-20 14:41 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-05-20 19:58 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-20 21:49 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-20 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-20 22:42 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-05-20 22:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-20 22:56 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-21 1:10 ` Rene Herman
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