From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, fweisbec@gmail.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:11:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxjyopie.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901041038570.3179@localhost.localdomain> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 4 Jan 2009 10:54:15 -0800 (PST)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> That said, I also wonder if we really even need to autoprobe the
> interrupts on any modern hardware. Rather than trying to speed up irq
> probing, maybe we could figure it out some other way..
You'll hate that suggestion, but i8250_pnp should already discover
it fine via ACPI on modern systems. ia64 has done it this way
forever.
It probably won't work on really old system, but one could always
use DMI year to distingush (not pretty, but works usually)
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-04 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-04 17:24 [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 17:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] fastboot: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 18:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 19:05 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-04 19:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 19:49 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-04 19:52 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-04 17:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-04 18:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:38 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-04 18:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 17:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 17:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] fastboot: make ACPI bus drivers probe asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05 2:03 ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-05 1:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05 2:51 ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-05 2:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05 5:30 ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-04 18:16 ` [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 18:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 19:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 19:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05 16:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 21:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05 21:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 19:11 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-01-04 19:46 ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-04 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 19:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 21:44 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-11 13:14 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 6:01 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-01-05 8:47 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-01-05 10:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05 11:18 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-01-07 2:41 ` Shaohua Li
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