Re: [PATCH] - Earlier detection of system type (UV or non-UV)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Jul 20 2008 - 05:01:23 EST



* Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> A patch is coming that requires earlier detection of system type (UV
> or non-UV) Move the logic that detects whether running on UV to
> acpi_boot_table_init().
>
> Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx>

hm, shouldnt the UV x2apic code be consolidated into the new apic_ops
that is in the tip/x2apic branch? Plus the new x86_quirks method that
allows the general bootup to pick up various system-specific quirks.
It's all in tip/master:

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

Ingo
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