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