Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] x86/boot: Moorestown patch set based on platform_set abstraction

Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-29T17:01:30Z

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Pan, Jacob jun wrote:

> Based on platform_setup patchset posted by tglx (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/21/358)
>
> These Moorestown patches have become much simplified once ported to the new
> platform_setup layer.
>
> Now the platform feature flags are less useful, in fact they
> are only used in separating ioapic and 8259 now, so once the interrupt
> controller code is drivernized, we would not need the platform feature flags
> in the core.

I don't think that we need big changes in the ioapic code. All you
need can be done with way simpler tweaking.

Thanks,

tglx