From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make Intel 8-way Xeons boot again
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:02:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4CE35D.4040801@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263327630.2854.448.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
On 01/12/2010 12:20 PM, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:10 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> if the system can not use logical flat.
>>
>> should have some bit set in FADT...
>
> Yinghai, Sorry. I am not sure what you are referring to here. I have
> mentioned about FADT in another thread, so not sure what you mean by
> this here.
>
> Are you referring that bios for the IBM system can use this to fix their
> problem? Once we understand what the problem is with IBM platform, then
> we can propose a solution (using FADT perhaps) that is acceptable to
> everyone.
>
Does the IBM platform set this bit in FADT?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-09 10:10 [PATCH] Make Intel 8-way Xeons boot again Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-09 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-09 22:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-11 17:38 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-09 21:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-10 2:30 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-10 6:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-10 10:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-01-11 4:53 ` [PATCH] Revert 2fbd07a5f so machines with BSPs phsyical apic id != 0 can boot Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-11 21:39 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-11 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-11 23:45 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-11 23:51 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12 2:27 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-14 0:03 ` Yuhong Bao
2010-01-11 21:43 ` [PATCH] Make Intel 8-way Xeons boot again Yinghai Lu
2010-01-11 21:53 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 19:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12 20:20 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-01-12 21:07 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 22:46 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-13 4:42 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
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