On Wednesday 03 October 2007 18:58, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 10/03/2007 12:10 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> Maybe we can/should merge the doc files along with the x86 arch merge.
> >
> > Well, the x86 merge is pretty much mechanical. It should be followed up
> > with a lot of manual merging.
>
> It would be really nice if identical kernel parameters used the same names,
> so people didn't waste their time trying e.g. "nolapic_timer" on x86_64
> because that option fixed their problems on i386 (it's "noapictimer" in
> x86_64.)
Well the x86-64 option was there first; you have to ask whoever
added the i386 option why they used a different name
But I normally added aliases as people reported them. Nobody did in
this case.
One reason is probably that noapictimer is not very useful on x86-64 --
the nolapic_timer is really more a workaround that only started making
sense on HRT because it made "apicmaintimer" default.
On current x86-64 which doesn't do that there is very little reason to use it
and you'll usually just break things.
So I guess the real reason is that they're not actually identical
when you look closely.
-Andi
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