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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 15:05:55 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Bypass legacy PIC and PIT on ACPI hardware reduced
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On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 03:16:07PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Sort of.  What we need is a "do not touch PIC/PIT" bit for the code that
> tries to fall back to them in some cases (which may appear to work if
> the hardware is physically there, but it may confuse the platform).

Can "some cases" detection be nicely put into a x86_platform
platform-specific method?

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    Boris.

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