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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Anshuman Gupta <anshuman.gupta@intel.com>
Cc: glx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	hpa@zytor.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rajneesh.bhardwaj@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86: i8237: Register based on FADT legacy boot flag
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:52:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1522075953.16723.11.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1803251348190.1481@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

> Please explain WHY 2017 is the cut-off date. I still have no clue how
> that
> is decided aside of being a random number.

Because if it's prior to 2017 then it'll almost certainly have those
registers even if the firmware says otherwise. After that point we
think the firmware is going to give valid answers (although the 0xFF
check is actually the important one in reality).

Alan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-26 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-14  5:17 [PATCH v2] x86: i8237: Register based on FADT legacy boot flag Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-14 12:48 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-14 15:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]   ` <20180319104627.GA2959@anshuman.gupta@intel.com>
2018-03-19 10:57     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-22 10:21       ` [PATCH v3] " Anshuman Gupta
2018-03-22 11:05         ` Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-22 11:17           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-25 11:50         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-26  5:48           ` Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-26  9:11             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-26 10:34               ` hpa
2018-03-26 10:51                 ` Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-26 14:55                 ` Alan Cox
2018-03-29 15:06               ` [PATCH v4] " Anshuman Gupta
2018-04-27 15:06                 ` [tip:x86/dma] x86/i8237: Register device " tip-bot for Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-26 14:52           ` Alan Cox [this message]

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