Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support

From: Rene Herman
Date: Fri Aug 01 2008 - 11:17:20 EST


On 01-08-08 16:49, Andi Kleen wrote:

For real ISA at the least, the best fix I feel is just not go grabbing resources without anything (ie, ISAPnP) or anyone (ie, the user) telling

Really old systems don't have isapnp. Neither have smbus devices.

us that's where the hardware's at.

That would mean the users on these systems would need to add tons
of obscure command line options.

No, it means users on those 1% of systems that are using drivers that break the other 99% would have to for those one or two drivers that do.

And as said, we don't care.

Rene.
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