Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_X86_APIC_OFF for i386/UP
From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Fri Jan 28 2005 - 12:55:58 EST
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Forgive me for not wading through the code, but it really needs to
> > be spelt out in the comments: what's wrong with the existing kernel,
> > with "noapic nolapic" in the distro's bootstring by default?
>
> It's harder to explain and traditionally in LILO you couldn't remove
> any options (in grub you can now). I think it makes much more sense
> to have an positive option for this too, not a negative one.
Well new distributions with 2.6 most probably aren't using LILO and if
you're running 2.6 with some ancient distro you can add commandline
options yourself.
> Also I must add my patch fixes real bugs in the code, not just
> adding the new option.
Please seperate them then.
> > I'm not going to be the only one confused by this!
>
> I think there is much more confusion in the current way.
I'm going to claim confusion over this one too.
Thanks,
Zwane
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