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Re: [Xen-devel] Unknown boot option

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:45:27AM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> OK, I think I can see what's going on here: you've got a shiny
> new CPU that supports the new "mwait" instruction, which is
> causing us to select the wrong idle loop.

yes.

> Please can you edit select_idle_routine in
> arch/xen/arch/kernel/process.c to remove the if clause at the top
> of the function. Christian may be able to suggest a cleaner fix,
> but I think that should do it.

I fixed it slightly differently by moving the xen specific part
into setup.c, making the change to process.c more generic.

    christian



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