Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751370AbWCNPXy (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:23:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751465AbWCNPXy (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:23:54 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:44740 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751370AbWCNPXx (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:23:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:23:50 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Zachary Amsden Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Virtualization Mailing List , Xen-devel , Andrew Morton , Dan Hecht , Dan Arai , Anne Holler , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , Joshua LeVasseur , Chris Wright , Rik Van Riel , Jyothy Reddy , Jack Lo , Kip Macy , Jan Beulich , Ky Srinivasan , Wim Coekaerts , Leendert van Doorn Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 2/24] i386 Vmi config Message-ID: <20060314152350.GB16921@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Zachary Amsden , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Virtualization Mailing List , Xen-devel , Andrew Morton , Dan Hecht , Dan Arai , Anne Holler , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , Joshua LeVasseur , Chris Wright , Rik Van Riel , Jyothy Reddy , Jack Lo , Kip Macy , Jan Beulich , Ky Srinivasan , Wim Coekaerts , Leendert van Doorn References: <200603131800.k2DI0RfN005633@zach-dev.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603131800.k2DI0RfN005633@zach-dev.vmware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 15 On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:00:27AM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > Introduce the basic VMI sub-arch configuration dependencies. VMI kernels only > are designed to run on modern hardware platforms. As such, they require a > working APIC, and do not support some legacy functionality, including APM BIOS, > ISA and MCA bus systems, PCI BIOS interfaces, or PnP BIOS (by implication of > dropping ISA support). They also require a P6 series CPU. That's pretty bad because distributors need another kernel still. At least a working APIC isn't quite as common today as it should. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/