From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754581AbYIHPmS (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:42:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752107AbYIHPmF (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:42:05 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:44645 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936AbYIHPmF (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:42:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:45:35 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux@sandersweb.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, the arch/x86 maintainers , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC Message-ID: <20080908154535.GL26079@one.firstfloor.org> References: <200808311422.12525.linux@sandersweb.net> <200809071922.32974.linux@sandersweb.net> <48C48467.40703@zytor.com> <200809072249.17280.linux@sandersweb.net> <48C4A46B.90705@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:09:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > Under that logic we shouldn't even have CPU configurables, since you want it > > to "just work" whatever crap you're running on. That is EXACTLY what > > CONFIG_X86_GENERIC means > > I dunno.. Event he help-text doesn't actually agree with that: The help text matches in how I wrote this option originally. The original use case was the 128 byte P4 cache lines. -Andi