On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:00:43PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Jan Beulich wrote: > > The specific goal is to be able to enable the XEN option in our native > > kernel, > > which gets configured with M586. So we could live with XEN depending on > > X86_CMPXCHG, but would definitely need the dependency on X86_TSC > > dropped. Nevertheless I'd favor even X86_CMPXCHG dropped unless that > > causes unresolvable (or difficult to resolve) problems. > > Seems reasonable. Do you have a patch?
You might want a runtime check for these features as a future Xen hypervisor might eliminate these requirements. Ok, not really likely, but still possible. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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/
