[PATCH] Automatically enable bigsmp on big HP machines

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

This enables apic=bigsmp automatically on some big HP machines that need it. 
This makes them boot without kernel parameters on a generic arch kernel.

Also it removes an unnecessary panic in the same area.

-Andi

diff -u linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c-HP linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c
--- linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c-HP	2004-08-05 14:00:29.325072566 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c	2004-08-05 14:19:57.058593500 +0200
@@ -272,6 +272,16 @@
 }  
 #endif
 
+static __init int hp_ht_bigsmp(struct dmi_blacklist *d) 
+{ 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH
+ 	extern int dmi_bigsmp;
+ 	printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s detected: force use of apic=bigsmp\n", d->ident);
+ 	dmi_bigsmp = 1;
+#endif
+ 	return 0;
+} 
+
 /*
  *	Process the DMI blacklists
  */
@@ -460,6 +455,17 @@
 #endif	// CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT
 
 #ifdef	CONFIG_ACPI_PCI
+
+	{ hp_ht_bigsmp, "HP ProLiant DL760 G2", {
+			MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "HP"),
+			MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "P44-"),
+			NO_MATCH, NO_MATCH }},
+
+	{ hp_ht_bigsmp, "HP ProLiant DL740", {
+			MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "HP"),
+			MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "P47-"),
+			NO_MATCH, NO_MATCH }},
+
 	/*
 	 *	Boxes that need ACPI PCI IRQ routing disabled
 	 */
diff -u linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c-HP linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
--- linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c-HP	2004-08-05 14:00:29.328072077 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c	2004-08-05 14:17:49.595383418 +0200
@@ -1714,7 +1714,7 @@
 		reg_00.raw = io_apic_read(apic, 0);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioapic_lock, flags);
 		if (reg_00.bits.ID != mp_ioapics[apic].mpc_apicid)
-			panic("could not set ID!\n");
+			printk(" could not set ID!\n");
 		else
 			printk(" ok.\n");
 	}