From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Skip timer works.patch
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:54:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4546669F.8020706@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610271416.12548.ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> no_timer_check. But it's only there on x86-64 in mainline - although there
> were some patches to add it to i386 too.
>
I can rename to match the x86-64 name.
>> That is what this patch is building towards, but the boot option is
>> "free", so why not? In the meantime, it helps non-paravirt kernels
>> booted in a VM.
>>
>
> Hmm, you meant they paniced before? If they just fail a few tests
> that is not particularly worrying (real hardware does that often too)
>
Yes, they sometimes fail to boot, and the failure message used to ask us
to pester mingo.
Zach
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-30 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-20 0:09 Zachary Amsden
2006-10-27 14:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-27 19:09 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-10-27 21:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-30 20:54 ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
2006-10-30 22:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-30 23:09 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-10-30 23:12 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-30 23:24 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-10-30 23:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-15 8:03 ` Chris Wright
2006-11-16 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-16 23:08 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-11-16 23:10 ` Chris Wright
2006-11-17 5:05 ` Andi Kleen
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