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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix Altix boot breakage in ACPI
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 06:57:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080519155324.0684.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080516202020.GA21250@sgi.com>

Hi Russ,

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The inadvertent breakage is the patch puts #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PARSE_SRAT
> around acpi_parse_memory_affinity() and acpi_table_parse_srat(), but Altix
> needs to parse the SRAT.  The result is that Altix dies early in boot in the
> ACPI code.

your patch fix fujitsu box problem too.
I think almost IA64 box use ACPI SRAT, not only altrix.

	Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>


and IMHO, your patch is not altrix independent.
it is generic more.

if possible, I hope change patch description.
What do you think it?



      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-19  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-16 20:20 [patch] Fix Altix boot breakage in ACPI Russ Anderson
2008-05-16 22:40 ` Luck, Tony
2008-05-17 14:10 ` Russ Anderson
2008-05-17 16:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-19  6:57 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]

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