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

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Message-ID: <48C549D6.10002@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:50:46 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	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

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 The help text is indeed out of date.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?

	-hpa
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