Re: Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree

From: James Bottomley
Date: Sun Apr 27 2008 - 18:10:28 EST



On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 15:00 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > I might add that the intel SAPIC functions
> > in roughly the same manner, so this might break more than just voyager.
>
> Are you referring to the IA64 SAPIC here, or something else? The only
> mention of SAPIC in the x86 tree appear to be naming of fields in ACPI
> tables.

Yes, that's the one ... but I believe a class of the xAPICs also used a
similar principle.

James


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