On 10/04/2007 05:01 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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. >
I have HRT in my x86_64 kernel. I guess that patchset should add the alias. - 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/
