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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Ralf Jung <ralfjung-e@gmx.de>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes for IOAPICs
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:39:18 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110826093917.GE3903@sun> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201108261122.33304.ralfjung-e@gmx.de>

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:22:32AM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I rather wonder if there a way to assign a different address for the
> > watchdog Bjorn referring to. I don't have such machine to test but
> > seems its base address is configurable via pmio. Just curious.
>
> That would be the watchdog in my laptop then, I guess (I'm the reporter of the 
> bug mentioned by Bjorn)? I don't know much about all the inner workings, but 
> if you send me patches I can tell you what they do.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ralf

Hi Ralf, I can't put that risk on you. Hell knows how it will react
on such reprogramming (which is seems rather a bios duty than kernel).

Bjorn, from where we pick this address at moment, it's obtained via
pci config?

	Cyrill

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-26  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-25 23:05 [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes for IOAPICs Bjorn Helgaas
2011-08-25 23:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86, ioapic: Announce resources reserved " Bjorn Helgaas
2011-08-25 23:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes " Suresh Siddha
2011-08-26  0:17   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-08-26  1:41     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-26  6:18       ` Yinghai Lu
2011-08-26  6:48       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26  9:22         ` Ralf Jung
2011-08-26  9:39           ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2011-08-26  9:53             ` Ralf Jung
2011-08-26  9:56               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26  6:22     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 16:21       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-08-26 16:24         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-26 18:09         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 18:21           ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-26 19:15             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
     [not found] ` <CAErSpo5kEw=VTVv-=_D3hQg5oRNL9yEyJUnpP0biH=t3WRXMZw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-26 21:09   ` Fwd: " Ralf Jung

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