From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [arch-x86] Allow SRAT integrity check to be skipped
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:03:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C87CFFC.8050709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrqwiv1l.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
On 09/07/2010 11:55 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>>
>> If this is a production BIOS it should have this information.
>
> The point was -- it wasn't a production BIOS and the production
> BIOS will be fixed.
>
>From the original description:
This patch adds a boot parameter to allow a kernel to be booted
with the option to skip the SRAT check. There are BIOSes in
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
production that have these failures, so this will allow people
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
in the field to work around these BIOS issues.
Agreed that command-line option is a good thing to have in general and
that it is not necessary to have DMI quirks for preproduction BIOSes.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-08 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-01 21:33 [PATCH] [arch-x86] Allow SRAT integrity check to be skipped Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-09-01 21:33 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-01 22:04 ` rdunlap
2010-09-01 22:11 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-09-08 19:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-03 10:04 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-02 6:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-02 10:03 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-03 6:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-07 19:38 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-09-07 19:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-07 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-07 20:16 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-09-07 20:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-08 6:55 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-08 18:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-09-08 18:51 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
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