Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch 01/20] cell: add RAS support

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 12:25:45 EST


On Tuesday 20 June 2006 17:43, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> > This is a first version of support for the Cell BE "Reliability,
> > Availability and Serviceability" features.
>
> Does it really make sense to do this under a config option? I don't see
> why anyone would not want to know that their machine is about to melt.
>
You can only have that when running on bare metal. Machines that run
on a hypervisor can't run that code.

It probably makes sense to auto-select that option for CONFIG_CELL_BLADE
though.

Arnd <><
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