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

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Message-ID: <20080908154535.GL26079@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:45:35 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux@...dersweb.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi-suse@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:09:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 
> > Under that logic we shouldn't even have CPU configurables, since you want it
> > to "just work" whatever crap you're running on.  That is EXACTLY what
> > CONFIG_X86_GENERIC means
> 
> I dunno.. Event he help-text doesn't actually agree with that:

The help text matches in how I wrote this option originally.
The original use case was the 128 byte P4 cache lines.

-Andi
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