From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] X86, UV: Update UV APIC driver check
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:32:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324063231.GA26302@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150323172144.649316225@asylum.americas.sgi.com>
* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> Fix a bug in the oem check function that determines if the system
> is a UV system and the BIOS is compatible with the kernel's UV apic
> driver. This prevents some possibly obscure panics and guards the
> system against being started on SGI hardware that does not have the
> required kernel support. [...]
This would be one patch ...
> [...] Also add update for new UV3000 system.
... and that's a second patch.
> The first "OEM" check was also optimized to return faster if the
> system is not an SGI or UV system.
Looks like this mixes up with the fix and can be part of the first
patch - although ideally it would have been good to create a 3 patch
series to preserve the separation of the various changes.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-24 6:32 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20150323172142.904806569@asylum.americas.sgi.com>
2015-03-23 17:21 ` [PATCH 1/1] X86, UV: Update UV APIC driver check Mike Travis
2015-03-24 6:32 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-03-24 19:57 ` Mike Travis
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