On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:13:54PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
...
> Yup, "notsc" was used in the early days to avoid APIC emulation.
>
> Anyone care to send a patch to drop it from master?
>
> Pekka
>
Here we go
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Subject: [PATCH] tools, kvm: Drop "notsc" no longer needed kernel option
"notsc" option has been used to avoid APIC calibration
problem at early days when we didn't support APIC at all.
Now with KVM APIC emulation used there is no longer need
for this option. Drop it.
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Tested-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
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tools/kvm/builtin-run.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.git/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ int kvm_cmd_run(int argc, const char **a
vidmode = 0;
memset(real_cmdline, 0, sizeof(real_cmdline));
- strcpy(real_cmdline, "notsc noapic noacpi pci=conf1 reboot=k panic=1 i8042.direct=1 "
+ strcpy(real_cmdline, "noapic noacpi pci=conf1 reboot=k panic=1 i8042.direct=1 "
"i8042.dumbkbd=1 i8042.nopnp=1");
if (vnc || sdl) {
strcat(real_cmdline, " video=vesafb console=tty0");
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