From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:28:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4859FCA4.4050606@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440806182326m8c3ad56j29242895507e074d@mail.gmail.com>
Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> Can somebody clue me into why this concept
>> is something other than totally insane?
>
> for system that have 6 pcie slots and more, with full populated cards.
> when boot with mptable, BIOS will use irq < 16 for all pci devices,
> and several devices will share same irq.
> but when acpi is enabled, irqs are spanned all over.
>
> also when pci card with several pci bridges is plugged in, the mptable
> is totally messed up, some slot will work, and some doesn't work.
And the reason to worry about supporting non-ACPI on such hardware is what?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-19 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200805041823.57198.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
2008-05-06 17:38 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable Yinghai Lu
2008-05-06 17:41 ` [PATCH] x86: fixed mtrr change WP to WB Yinghai Lu
2008-05-06 17:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-06 18:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-06 18:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-06 18:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-06 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-06 19:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-06 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-06 19:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 7:48 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-05-17 2:32 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable v3 Yinghai Lu
2008-05-19 15:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-19 19:35 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable v4 Yinghai Lu
2008-05-19 19:52 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable v5 Yinghai Lu
2008-05-25 23:00 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable v6 Yinghai Lu
2008-06-01 20:17 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7 Yinghai Lu
2008-06-09 2:53 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7 - fix Yinghai Lu
2008-06-09 10:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-09 17:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-09 18:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-06-09 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-09 19:38 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-09 19:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-09 19:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-06-18 21:32 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable fix with no ioapic Yinghai Lu
2008-06-19 0:29 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable fix with no ioapic v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-06-19 7:18 ` [PATCH] x86: let MPS support selectable Yinghai Lu
2008-06-19 12:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-19 12:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-19 15:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-06-19 17:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-19 18:03 ` Len Brown
2008-06-19 18:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-06-26 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <200806191213.10312.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
2008-06-19 19:15 ` [PATCH] x86: fix compiling when CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE is not set Yinghai Lu
2008-06-20 14:42 ` [PATCH] x86: check command line " Yinghai Lu
2008-06-20 15:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-20 15:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-20 15:36 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-06-20 23:11 ` [PATCH] x86: check command line when CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE is not set v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-06-21 8:14 ` [PATCH] x86: clean up init_amd() Yinghai Lu
2008-06-24 12:12 ` [PATCH] x86: check command line when CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE is not set Pavel Machek
2008-06-26 8:23 ` Yinghai Lu
[not found] ` <200806200733.31477.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
2008-06-20 15:03 ` [PATCH] x86: simplify x86_mpparse dependency check Ingo Molnar
2008-06-20 15:31 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-06-19 12:13 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable fix with no ioapic v2 Ingo Molnar
2008-06-18 22:18 ` [PATCH] x86: update mptable v7 Len Brown
2008-06-18 22:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-19 0:33 ` Len Brown
2008-06-19 0:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-19 4:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-06-19 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-19 5:11 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-19 5:27 ` Len Brown
2008-06-19 6:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-06-19 7:31 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-19 18:16 ` Len Brown
2008-06-20 6:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-20 7:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-20 9:12 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-19 5:20 ` Len Brown
2008-06-19 6:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-06-19 6:28 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-06-19 6:35 ` Yinghai Lu
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