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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:02:54 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC
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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> So if it's behind EMBEDDED, and defaults to "on", then I have no 
>> problem with changing the help text to say "If you do this, we'll 
>> statically do things that really _require_ you to have a CPU that 
>> looks _exactly_ like the CPU you claimed".
>
> Sounds like a plan.  I'll have a patch shortly.

yep. I thought about changing the name and adding a default y but 
keeping the name and also putting it behind EMBEDDED would be perfect.

	Ingo