From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755208AbYIHPv3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:51:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752608AbYIHPvV (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:51:21 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38444 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936AbYIHPvU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:51:20 -0400 Message-ID: <48C549D6.10002@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:50:46 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: 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 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> In-Reply-To: <20080908155021.GN26079@one.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 The help text is indeed out of date.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? -hpa