Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:34:54 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] floppy: revert floppy disable halt warning |
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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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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