From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
fastboot@lists.osdl.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [REVIEW] Fix irqpoll on IA64 (timer interrupt != 0)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:21:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174335720.13341.588.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070319181336.GC12628@strauss.suse.de>
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:13 +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> That requires changes in Linux-generic files. The default of timer_irq is 0, so
> the patch doesn't break i386/x86_64. However, other platforms also may also
> have a timer interrupt non-equal to zero, so they can also use the new
> set_timer_interrupt() function.
>
> The patch is against 2.6.21-rc4. Please give me your input how to improve
> the way it's done if you don't like the way I did the change. irqpoll is
> required to work with kdump in some situations and that's why I discovered
> that kdump doesn't work on that platform (HP rx2660).
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-19 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-19 18:13 [PATCH] [REVIEW] Fix irqpoll on IA64 (timer interrupt != 0) Bernhard Walle
2007-03-19 18:29 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-03-19 18:37 ` [Fastboot] " Bernhard Walle
2007-03-19 18:38 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-03-19 20:21 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
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