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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and I really don't think that changing the help text is the right solution 
> here. It may be "technically correct", but it is simply not user-friendly 
> or smart.

The issue at hand is that at least with the current toolchain, we need 
to pass -march=generic in order for these instructions to be generated. 
 We have an option for this, CONFIG_X86_GENERIC, which distributions 
really *should* be using anyway.

And yes, it should be the default.  The patch I have makes it
"default y" as well as change the help text.

Would it make you happier if this option was forced enabled unless 
CONFIG_EMBEDDED was on?

	-hpa

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