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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Sep 08 2008 - 11:51:29 EST


Andi Kleen 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The help text is indeed out of date.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.

You (or whoever did those changes) likely broke a lot of distribution setups subtly then. Hopefully the changes were worth that.

Likely broke a lot of distribution setups how?

-hpa
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