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From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Fail to early boot with v2.6.27-rc2 to at least v2.6.29-rc2 due to dc1e35c
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:56:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090122225618.GA16033@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4978F5F8.1040103@zytor.com>

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:40:56PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > Ok. Here is the patch for this aswell. Thanks.
> 
> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to do this in the CPUID code rather
> than in the xsave code...

We can do this in the cpuid code aswell, but the dependency information
varies from feature to feature and there are no architectural methods here.
So I think its better to keep it near the code enabling that feaure.

thanks,
suresh

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-22 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-19 14:04 Fail to early boot with v2.6.27-rc2 to at least v2.6.29-rc2 due to dc1e35c Avuton Olrich
2009-01-19 14:28 ` Avuton Olrich
2009-01-19 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-19 19:31   ` Avuton Olrich
2009-01-19 20:07     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-19 20:11       ` Suresh Siddha
2009-01-19 21:46         ` Avuton Olrich
2009-01-19 21:57           ` Suresh Siddha
2009-01-19 22:07             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-19 22:14               ` Suresh Siddha
2009-01-19 22:24                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-21  5:20               ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-22 22:22                 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-01-22 22:40                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-22 22:56                     ` Suresh Siddha [this message]
2009-01-20  3:35             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-20  6:36               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-22  0:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-22  2:26   ` Avuton Olrich
2009-01-22  8:28     ` Ingo Molnar

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