Re: [PATCH 0/8][RFC] IO latency/throughput fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 08 2009 - 08:14:43 EST



* Diego Calleja <diegocg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Martes 07 Abril 2009 12:36:11 Ingo Molnar escribió:
> > Since besides myself i'm not aware of any other person on this
> > planet actually _booting_ allyes/allmod Linux kernels, i guess this
> > is not a big issue anyway :-)
>
> IIRC once I tried to boot an allyes kernel and it oopsed, because
> (i think) the probing routines of some drivers have never been
> tested in machines that do not have the corresponding hardware. So
> I doubt someoneone is using it ;)

Yes, i mapped those out gradually and disabled them. I've been
test-booting such allyesconfig 32-bit and 64-bit kernels ever since
then - for the past 2 years or so.

Ingo
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