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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:50:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 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 The help text is indeed out of date.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?
>
> Previously they could set CPU x and it would still run on other CPUs
> even if that option was not set. If that's not the case anymore then
> they will have some unhappy users once they update their kernels.

That was broken long before by the gcc and binutils authors.

	-hpa
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