On Thursday 07 February 2008 11:37:12 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > actually, the way i solved it for qemu+KVM+paravirt was to just turn off > > this rather silly check in the serial driver if inside a paravirt guest. > > When we are emulated then the serial 'hardware' is totally reliable and > > we should just trust it. That way i never dropped a single bit of kernel > > log output again. > > Yes, but keying that on paravirt is silly in the extreme. After all, > there is no need for this to be paravirtualized. > > -hpa
Specifically, qemu isn't paravirtualized, it's fully virtualized. The same kernel can run on real hardware just fine. (Sort of the point of the project...) I can yank the warning for the kernels I build (or set PASS_LIMIT to 9999999), but I'd rather not carry any more patches than I can avoid... Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. -- 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/
