On 01/13/2013 08:36 PM, John Morris wrote:
>
>
> On 01/13/2013 07:53 AM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>> On 01/13/2013 05:40 AM, John Morris wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/12/2013 01:03 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>> On 01/12/2013 06:26 PM, John Morris wrote:>
>>>>
>>>>> The kernel is built from the elrepo.org kernel, and this config file
>>>>> overrides the upstream config; makes it easy to see the Xenomai-specific
>>>>> changes:
>>>>> https://github.com/zultron/kernel-ml/blob/branch3.5.3-xeno/config-3.5.3-xenomai-x86_64
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It seems a really bad idea to enable the SMI workaround by default.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks! Despite feeling uncomfortable contradicting the documentation,
>>> I was encouraged to turn this on by someone more authoritative than me.
>>> It does seem like a separate package with it turned on is warranted for
>>> those who have problems and have been fairly warned about the risk.
>>
>>
>> I guess we should turn the compile-time option into a kernel parameter.
>> So, the smi workaround would be disabled by default, and only enabled
>> when passing a kerne command-line option.
>
> That would be ideal!
We will try to issue a fix for the 2.6.2 release first, this improvement
will be part of the next release.
--
Gilles.
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