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

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:30:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, David Sanders wrote:
> >
> > The patch disables a optimization used in one place by commenting out some 
> > lines in nop.h.  Please comment.
> 
> Hmm.. I'm not a huge fan of the ASM_NOP mess, but you also disable it for 
> 64-bit x86 too.

Heh -- I originally only added it because you're asked for it ...

Yes going back to some simple generic nops and avoid all these problems
would be a great thing.

-Andi
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