From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753206Ab1AFTYt (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:24:49 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54133 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752137Ab1AFTYs (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:24:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4D26166D.1020009@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:22:21 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luck, Tony" CC: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Wu Fengguang , Bjorn Helgaas , Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/apic changes for v2.6.38 References: <20110106094423.GA17565@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/06/2011 10:55 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> out-of-topic modifications in x86-apic-for-linus: >> ------------------------------------------------- >> drivers/acpi/numa.c # d3bd058: x86, acpi: Parse all SRAT cpu ent > > Why is this x86-only? Aren't the same issues possible elsewhere? > > Sure, ACPI is only used on x86 and ia64, and likely nobody cares about > ia64, but that CONFIG_X86 still looks odd. > Tony, as representative of the (ACPI - x86) universe, could you comment? I don't know if this is applicable on IA64. -hpa