Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:09:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Under that logic we shouldn't even have CPU configurables, since you want it
> > > to "just work" whatever crap you're running on.  That is EXACTLY what
> > > CONFIG_X86_GENERIC means
> > I dunno.. Event he help-text doesn't actually agree with that:
>
> The help text matches in how I wrote this option originally.
> The original use case was the 128 byte P4 cache lines.

The help text is indeed out of date.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.

	-hpa
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