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From: Len Brown <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: sergiomb-hHo3WeeoaswVhHzd4jOs4w@public.gmane.org
Cc: ACPI Developers
	<acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: early-init patch and allow "lapic" to force enable LAPIC patch
Date: 12 Oct 2004 18:10:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097619023.26145.2.camel@d845pe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097618643.32323.11.camel@darkstar>

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 18:04, Sérgio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> Hi Len,
> early-init patch http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269
> allow "lapic" to force enable LAPIC patch
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3238
> 
> I just check it now this 2 patches are included on 2.6.9-rc4
> the question is simple, isn't the second patch a replace of the first?

Nope.

There are systems that used to hang on boot in ACPI mode
even though the BIOS enables the LAPIC by default.
So the 2nd patch does not replace the 1st, which
addresses those systems.

cheers,
-Len



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