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From: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	tony.luck@intel.com, bp@alien8.de, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, lenb@kernel.org,
	linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] acpi: Issue _OSC call for native thermal interrupt handling
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:00:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EC17FD.5050104@hpe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1766653.m1W9bgBQpQ@vostro.rjw.lan>

On 3/17/2016 8:17 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
<snip>

>>>>>>> This change introduces a new function
>>>>>>> acpi_early_processor_set_osc(),
>>>>>>> which walks acpi name space and finds acpi processor object and
>>>>>>> set capability via _OSC method to take over thermal LVT.
>>>>>> Does this change just affect Skylake platforms or all platforms?
>>>>> Any platform which has Intel ® Speed Shift Technology (aka HWP)
>>>>> feature present and enabled.
>>
>> Could this be an unexpected change in behavior for platforms
>> with HWP that don't have this bug, assuming they would look at
>> the _OSC CPPP bit?  That's actually my main concern here.
> 
> Do you have any specific platforms in mind or just in general?

It's just general right now but as more HWP server platforms come out,
it may become specific.

-- ljk
> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-18 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-17 18:24 [PATCH v4] acpi: Issue _OSC call for native thermal interrupt handling Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-03-17 20:03 ` Linda Knippers
2016-03-17 20:36   ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-03-17 20:51     ` Linda Knippers
2016-03-17 21:12       ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2016-03-17 23:44         ` Linda Knippers
2016-03-18  0:17           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-03-18 15:00             ` Linda Knippers [this message]

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