Re: [PATCH 00/11] ACPI: early _PDC eval and unify x86/ia64

Dominik Brodowski
2009-12-21T08:15:50Z

Hey,

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:19:04PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> This does introduce a boot time namespace walk for all the CPUs
> in the system, looking for and evaluating _PDC. Hopefully that
> will not make life miserable for the giant SGI clusters. If worse
> comes to worse, maybe we can quirk them and avoid the namespace
> walk.

Could this be done async, with completion before EC initialization?

Best,
Dominik