Re: [PATCH] floppy: revert floppy disable halt warning

[Ingo Molnar]

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/27/2012 11:40 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > No objections from me.
> > 
> > Please resubmit against latest -tip, we unified the idle 
> > routines which likely interacts with that patch.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, no-hlt only existed because of 
> flaky power distributions on 386/486 systems which were sold 
> to run DOS.  Since DOS did no power management of any kind, 
> including HLT, the power draw was fairly uniform; when exposed 
> to the much higher noise levels you got when Linux used HLT 
> caused some of these systems to fail.
> 
> They were by far in the minority even back then.

This information should be added to the changelog.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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