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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux@sandersweb.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:57:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080908155721.GO26079@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C549D6.10002@zytor.com>

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:50:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >>The help text is indeed out of date.  I did a patch yesterday to, among 
> >>other things, update it; I also want to verify that we are disabling all 
> >>options that can cause gcc or binutils to generate nopl's; I plan to 
> >>push it today.
> >
> >You (or whoever did those changes) likely broke a lot of distribution 
> >setups subtly then. Hopefully the changes were worth that.
> 
> Likely broke a lot of distribution setups how?

Previously they could set CPU x and it would still run on other CPUs
even if that option was not set. If that's not the case anymore then
they will have some unhappy users once they update their kernels.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-31 18:22 [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC David Sanders
2008-08-31 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-31 19:27   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-31 19:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-05 15:38       ` David Sanders
2008-09-05 16:15         ` Jan Beulich
2008-09-05 16:39           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-05 18:43             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-05 20:06               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-05 19:08             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-05 20:12           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-05 16:30         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-05 17:55           ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-31 20:03   ` David Sanders
2008-09-01 20:23     ` David Sanders
2008-09-01 22:22       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-02 12:08         ` David Sanders
2008-09-02 18:12           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-02 18:44             ` David Sanders
2008-09-03 11:09               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-03 11:20                 ` David Sanders
     [not found] ` <48C1C156.9080003@zytor.com>
2008-09-07 20:07   ` David Sanders
2008-09-07 23:22     ` David Sanders
2008-09-08  1:48       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08  2:49         ` David Sanders
2008-09-08  4:04           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08  9:42             ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 13:25             ` David Sanders
2008-09-08 15:09             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 15:23               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-08 15:36                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 15:38                 ` David Sanders
2008-09-08 15:38                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 15:45               ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 15:43                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 15:50                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 15:50                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 15:50                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 15:57                       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-09-08 15:54                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 16:07                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 16:13                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 16:15                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 16:26                         ` David Sanders
2008-09-08 16:20                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 16:32                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 17:02                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-08 16:34                         ` david
2008-09-08 16:42                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 18:51                             ` david
2008-09-08 16:59                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:00                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 17:04                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:08                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 17:12                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 17:41                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:38                               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:59                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 19:09                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 22:42                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-08 17:18                             ` Andi Kleen

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