From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Du, Alek" <alek.du@intel.com>,
"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/pci: exclude mrst pci code for other platform
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:44:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B859DD1.601@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755A321EB54@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com>
On 02/24/2010 01:03 PM, Pan, Jacob jun wrote:
> Our goal is to have a binary compatible kernel runs on Moorestown and PC, can
> we keep the Moorestown PCI code for this purpose?
CONFIG_X86_MRST is supposed to reflect the *ability* to run on
Moorestown, not the *requirement* of running on Moorestown. As such,
Yinghai's patch seems correct to me.
If you cannot boot a kernel with CONFIG_X86_MRST=y on PC hardware, that
is a bug which should be fixed.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-24 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-13 1:40 [PATCH 5/9] x86/ioapic: improve handling of i8259a irq init Pan, Jacob jun
2010-02-20 1:28 ` [tip:x86/mrst] x86, ioapic: Improve handling of i8259A " tip-bot for Alek Du
2010-02-24 2:49 ` [PATCH] x86: fix compiling warning with legacy_pci_xxx Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 4:17 ` [PATCH] x86: remove left over nr_legacy_irqs Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 4:27 ` [PATCH -v2] " Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 8:09 ` [tip:x86/mrst] x86, legacy_irq: Remove " tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 19:04 ` tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 20:39 ` [PATCH] x86/pci: exclude mrst pci code for other platform Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 21:03 ` Pan, Jacob jun
2010-02-24 21:44 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-02-24 22:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 22:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-24 22:42 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-25 0:41 ` [PATCH] x86/mrst: add dependencies for Moorestown Pan, Jacob jun
2010-02-25 6:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-02-25 22:27 ` [tip:x86/mrst] x86, pci: Exclude Moorestown PCI code if CONFIG_X86_MRST=n tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 8:09 ` [tip:x86/mrst] x86, legacy_irq: Remove duplicate vector assigment tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-02-24 19:04 ` tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
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