Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't use NOPL on 32-bit cpu's because not all systems support it.

From: David Sanders
Date: Tue Sep 16 2008 - 13:50:45 EST


On Tuesday 16 September 2008 13:00, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Given that, we should either just rip this code out, or detect VPC
> > (how?). The latter option can be done post-.27, of course; if so, we
>
> Make the user pass a "vpcworkarounds" boot option...
Actually, you can pass noreplace-paravirt, but that is non-obvious to the
regular user.
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