From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755459AbYIHPx6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:53:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754510AbYIHPxs (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:53:48 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:51181 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753251AbYIHPxr (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:53:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:57:21 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , 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: <20080908155721.GO26079@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> <20080908154535.GL26079@one.firstfloor.org> <48C54839.8050304@zytor.com> <20080908155021.GN26079@one.firstfloor.org> <48C549D6.10002@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48C549D6.10002@zytor.com> 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 08:50:46AM -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The help text is indeed out of date.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