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

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Message-ID: <20080908155021.GN26079@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:50:21 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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

> The help text is indeed out of date.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.

-Andi
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