On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:54:55PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > 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. I will do that in my tree. > >>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. I still think we should figure that out automatically. Letting the Hypervisor pass magic boot options seems somehow unclean. But i suppose it will only work for the paravirtualized case, not for the case of kernel running "native" under a hypervisor I suppose? Or does that one not panic? -Andi
