Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_X86_APIC_OFF for i386/UP

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks for the constructive feedback. I withdraw the patch then
and will continue to maintain it in private.

-Andi
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