From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Enable monitor/mwait on Intel if BIOS hasn't already
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:54:04 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1108041751360.24626@x980> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110804194117.GA5265@srcf.ucam.org>
> We can't trust BIOS authors to get things right. Where we can reliably
> fix up things that are broken, we should do so.
How about if we can get a BIOS fix for this brand new system,
then we shall not clutter the kernel with a workaround,
otherwise we shall.
thanks,
-Len
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-04 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <5bec80947da3fb72f2f18fbe6d924a69f83fbed9.1312386029.git.luto@mit.edu>
2011-08-03 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: Enable monitor/mwait on Intel if BIOS hasn't already Len Brown
2011-08-03 16:22 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-08-03 16:42 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-08-03 19:17 ` Len Brown
2011-08-04 3:18 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-08-04 19:41 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-08-04 21:54 ` Len Brown [this message]
2011-08-04 21:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-08-05 9:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-08-06 11:42 ` Andrew Lutomirski
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