From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267689AbUHENrY (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:47:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267688AbUHENrU (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:47:20 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46733 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267677AbUHENkQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:40:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 15:34:43 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: arjanv@redhat.com Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Automatically enable bigsmp on big HP machines Message-Id: <20040805153443.106c8915.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1091711039.2790.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> References: <20040805143837.4a6dce7e.ak@suse.de> <1091711039.2790.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:03:59 +0200 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:38, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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. > > is it possible for this to use the new dmi infrastructure, eg not add it > to dmi_scan.c but to the place where it's used ? Certainly. Feel free to post a patch for that. -Andi >