Wow. This is some of the best Debian doc I've seen. Really thanks. And z/VM stuff. What's not to like?
Nick-former-VM/SP-current-Debian-system-administrator-:-)-G On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@fastmail.com> wrote: > For those of you who have an old laptop/notebook with a Banias-class > Pentium M or > Celeron M 32-bit Intel processor, use the forcepae option, and run a > custom kernel > (admitedly a limited audience), I have just developed a patch which you > may find > useful. By default, the kernel will taint itself (for the reason "CPU out > of spec") > when the forcepae kernel boot parameter is used. I disagree with this > course of > action. First of all, the CPU is not really out of spec. The CPU has all > the > capabilities that the kernel requires of it. It just fails to report one > of them. > Second, there is no binary-only blob mixed in with the source code. It > makes sense > to disable lock debugging when all the source code is not available, but > there is > no missing source code in this case. My patch leaves the kernel untainted: > > wget http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/dont_taint_forcepae.patch > > For more information about building a custom kernel, see > > http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/Kernel.htm > > -- > .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@fastmail.com> > : :' : > `. `'` > `- > >
