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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:11:48 -0700
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [git pull, take 2] x86 updates for v2.6.28, phase #9, sparse
 IRQ support
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Linus,
>>>>
>>>> Please pull the latest x86-v28-for-linus-phase9 git tree from:
>>>>
>>>> Sparse IRQ support - make NR_IRQS dynamic by turning it into nr_irqs, 
>>>> an by creating irq descriptors in a sparse way.
>>>>
>>>> Includes a number of dependent x86 topics: timers/hpet-percpu, IO-APIC 
>>>> and local APIC code unification, UV support updates.
>>>>
>>>> Has been cross-built on all architectures we could get crosscompilers 
>>>> for:
>>>>
>>>>   http://www.tglx.de/autoqa/index
>>>>
>>>> It should be largely uneventful for sparse-irq unaware, non-x86 
>>>> architectures.
>>> please find updated pull request below. Relative to phase-N-1. Updates 
>>> from today in this class of topics:
>>>
>>>   b570868: x86: apic - unify APIC_DIVISOR
>>>
>>> And i removed:
>>>
>>>   eada62c: acpi/x86: introduce __apci_map_table, v4
>>>
>>> [ Cc:-ed Yinghai for that - we can live without that patch (i.e. we at
>>>   most get a leak warning) and can have that via acpi.git, correct? ]
>> yes. we have several patches that even didn't pick up for a while.
>>
>> also please ask Linus to pull pci tree from Jesse before sparseirq.
>>
>> because we need
>> 	PCI: change MSI-x vector to 32bit
>>
>> in pci tree.
> 
> is it absolutely needed?
> 

qla2xxx with MSI-X will crash. only happend with the new card that support msi-x.

so it is not absolutely needed.

YH