On 10/04/2007 05:01 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> 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.
>
I have HRT in my x86_64 kernel. I guess that patchset should add the alias.
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