* Tim Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add support for a built-in command line for x86 architectures. The
Kconfig help gives the major rationale for this addition.
i have actually used a local hack quite similar to this to inject boot
options into bzImages via randconfig - so i would find this
* Thomas Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch adds some configuration options that allow to compile out
CPU vendor-specific code in x86 kernels (in arch/x86/kernel/cpu). The
new configuration options are only visible when CONFIG_EMBEDDED is
selected, as they are mostly
-tip testing found a couple of build failures:
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/x86/lib/lib.a(usercopy_32.o): In function `__copy_to_user_ll':
(.text+0x11e): undefined reference to `movsl_mask'
arch/x86/lib/lib.a(usercopy_32.o): In function `__copy_from_user_ll':
(.text+0x1fa): undefined reference
* Thomas Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c defines a few fallback functions
(cmpxchg_*()) that are used when the CPU doesn't support cmpxchg
and/or cmpxchg64 natively. However, while defined in an Intel-specific
file, these functions are also used for CPUs from
* David VomLehn dvoml...@cisco.com wrote:
Parallelization to improve boot times has been successful enough
that race conditions now exist between the init_post() open of
/dev/console and initialization of the console device. When this
occurs, opening /dev/console fails and any
* Arjan van de Ven ar...@infradead.org wrote:
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:43:46 +0200
Ingo Molnar mi...@elte.hu wrote:
The proper approach would be to use one of the async_synchronize*()
facilities in kernel/async.c to properly order the opening of the
console with device init
* Mark Brown broo...@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com wrote:
It is very rare to find a current system which is both sufficiently
resource constrained to want to compile out power management support
and sufficiently power insensitive to be able to tolerate doing so.
Since having the configuration
| 29 +++--
16 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
Ok, there's some real bang for bucks in this patch, nice! It's a beginning.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar mi...@elte.hu
Also, i've Cc:-ed Linus, to check whether the idea to make power management
* Tim Bird tbird...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Ingo Molnar mi...@elte.hu wrote:
Rafael, could you do a defconfig-ish x86 build with and without CONFIG_PM,
and
post the 'size vmlinux' comparison - so that we can see the size
difference? We
make some things
