Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

[Andi Kleen]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> doing _kernel_ bisection is totally hard at the moment - it disrupts the 
> user way too much and causes many hours of work for most users. 

It depends. Sometimes the bisection can be done in qemu/kvm/xen or
similar tools.  At least if the problem is not too hardware
dependent. And more and more people actually run in such environments.

I can also do it faster with autoboot or nfs root/powerswitch, but 
admittedly that's a very specialized setup most people don't have.

Still I agree with your basic point that it should be only
last resort.

-Andi
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