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

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The help text is indeed out of date.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.

OK, turns out that is already happending, by virtue of:

# add at the end to overwrite eventual tuning options from earlier
# cpu entries
cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_GENERIC)    += $(call tune,generic,$(call tune,i686))

-mtune=generic on 32-bit CPUs disable NOPL generation, and any 
gcc/binutils combo too old to have -mtune=generic won't generate them at 
all.

I think I verified this some time in the past, but I just had to refresh 
my memory.  This was a major reason to put this functionality on 
CONFIG_X86_GENERIC.

	-hpa
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