From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753095AbbCXGch (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 02:32:37 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com ([74.125.82.50]:33229 "EHLO mail-wg0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751956AbbCXGcg (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 02:32:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:32:31 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Mike Travis Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hedi Berriche , Dimitri Sivanich Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] X86, UV: Update UV APIC driver check Message-ID: <20150324063231.GA26302@gmail.com> References: <20150323172142.904806569@asylum.americas.sgi.com> <20150323172144.649316225@asylum.americas.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150323172144.649316225@asylum.americas.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Mike Travis wrote: > Fix a bug in the oem check function that determines if the system > is a UV system and the BIOS is compatible with the kernel's UV apic > driver. This prevents some possibly obscure panics and guards the > system against being started on SGI hardware that does not have the > required kernel support. [...] This would be one patch ... > [...] Also add update for new UV3000 system. ... and that's a second patch. > The first "OEM" check was also optimized to return faster if the > system is not an SGI or UV system. Looks like this mixes up with the fix and can be part of the first patch - although ideally it would have been good to create a 3 patch series to preserve the separation of the various changes. Thanks, Ingo