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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nick Lowe <nick.lowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>, Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>, Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: Dynamic nop selection breaks boot on Geode LX
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:32:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAA55F9.90503@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikCkwF+yd4kdad8Bcz-6YX+STiy1wgrFfJxsfRg@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/04/2010 03:25 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
> > As far as I'm aware, the check is just broken in VMs that trace their
> > lineage to Connectix's VirtualPC that Microsoft acquired back in 2006.
> > Is this correct? On balance, is this really to be cared about?
If it was a huge win from using NOPL, then it would perhaps not be -- or
we'd go through more effort at detecting the broken cases.  However,
since it's not, it's easier to just avoid it.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-04 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-02 19:16 Dynamic nop selection breaks boot on Geode LX Daniel Drake
2010-10-03  5:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-03  9:26   ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-03 14:47     ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-03 16:32   ` Daniel Drake
2010-10-03 17:12     ` Borislav Petkov
2010-10-04 18:06     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-04 15:46 ` Jason Baron
2010-10-04 16:49   ` Daniel Drake
2010-10-04 20:31   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-04 20:39     ` Jason Baron
2010-10-04 22:11       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-04 21:51   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-04 22:15     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-04 22:22       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-04 22:27         ` Nick Lowe
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTikCkwF+yd4kdad8Bcz-6YX+STiy1wgrFfJxsfRg@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-04 22:32           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-10-26 20:08   ` Daniel Drake
2010-10-26 20:12     ` Jason Baron

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