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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.21 - VMI logic error
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:32:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704131632.39464.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461EEADE.8060400@vmware.com>

On Friday 13 April 2007 04:28:46 Zachary Amsden wrote:
> So there is a logic error that would prevent us from ever using NOP 
> relocations, thus stopping any unnecessary callouts into a VMI ROM.  It 
> doesn't affect us so much, but could conceivably affect open source 
> implementations of a VMI ROM in the future.  It is not absolutely 
> critical, but it would be extremely nice to get it fixed in 2.6.21 so 
> there are no broken older kernels floating around that mandate having a 
> workaround for this or else breaking compatibility with these kernels.

Patch is fine for me.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-13  2:28 [PATCH] 2.6.21 - VMI logic error Zachary Amsden
2007-04-13 14:32 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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