On Wednesday 03 October 2007 18:58, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 10/03/2007 12:10 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> Maybe we can/should merge the doc files along with the x86 arch merge. > > > > Well, the x86 merge is pretty much mechanical. It should be followed up > > with a lot of manual merging. > > It would be really nice if identical kernel parameters used the same names, > so people didn't waste their time trying e.g. "nolapic_timer" on x86_64 > because that option fixed their problems on i386 (it's "noapictimer" in > x86_64.)
Well the x86-64 option was there first; you have to ask whoever added the i386 option why they used a different name But I normally added aliases as people reported them. Nobody did in this case. One reason is probably that noapictimer is not very useful on x86-64 -- the nolapic_timer is really more a workaround that only started making sense on HRT because it made "apicmaintimer" default. On current x86-64 which doesn't do that there is very little reason to use it and you'll usually just break things. So I guess the real reason is that they're not actually identical when you look closely. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
