From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.21 - VMI logic error Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:32:39 +0200 Message-ID: <200704131632.39464.ak@suse.de> References: <461EEADE.8060400@vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <461EEADE.8060400@vmware.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Zachary Amsden Cc: Andrew Morton , Virtualization Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Anthony Liguori List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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