From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Bin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: arch/x86/Kconfig: not select X86_MPPARSE when SFI is present
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:57:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121025075752.GE3712@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121025060400.GB38419@bingao-desk1.fm.intel.com>
* Bin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> MPS tables are not needed for systems that have proper ACPI support.
> This is also true for systems that have SFI in place.
>
> So this patch is to exclude X86_MPPARSE when either ACPI or SFI is present.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Gao <bin.gao@intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 46c3bff..b1494bd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ config X86_X2APIC
> If you don't know what to do here, say N.
>
> config X86_MPPARSE
> - bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI
> + bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI
> default y
> depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
> ---help---
The changelog does not seem to match the patch. Did you want to
say:
" So this patch allows the configuration (turning off) of
CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE when either ACPI or SFI is present. "
?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-25 6:04 arch/x86/Kconfig: not select X86_MPPARSE when SFI is present Bin Gao
2012-10-25 7:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-10-25 16:29 ` Bin Gao
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