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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Use helper in fault_64.c
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:19:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071218111908.GD9002@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197975535.7734.21.camel@brick>


* Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:

> Use the fixup_exception() helper in fault_64.c

thanks, applied.

> This is only appropriate if CONFIG_PNP_BIOS cannot be set on X86_64, 
> which looks to be the case, but needs confirmation.

yeah, that seems to be the case:

in drivers/pnp/pnpbios/Kconfig:

 config PNPBIOS
 ...
         depends on ISA && X86 && EXPERIMENTAL

in arch/x86/Kconfig:

 if X86_32
 config ISA

it seems the PNPBIOS has not infested the 64-bit world, so we wont ever 
see this with a 64-bit kernel:

                extern u32 pnp_bios_is_utter_crap;
                pnp_bios_is_utter_crap = 1;
                printk(KERN_CRIT "PNPBIOS fault.. attempting recovery.\n");

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-18 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-18 10:58 [PATCH] x86: Use helper in fault_64.c Harvey Harrison
2007-12-18 11:19 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-12-18 11:23   ` Harvey Harrison

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