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Message-ID: <4546669F.8020706@vmware.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:54:55 -0800
From: Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc: virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Skip timer works.patch
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
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