From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make Intel 8-way Xeons boot again
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:07:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263330474.2854.548.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4CE35D.4040801@zytor.com>
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:02 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/12/2010 12:20 PM, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:10 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> if the system can not use logical flat.
> >>
> >> should have some bit set in FADT...
> >
> > Yinghai, Sorry. I am not sure what you are referring to here. I have
> > mentioned about FADT in another thread, so not sure what you mean by
> > this here.
> >
> > Are you referring that bios for the IBM system can use this to fix their
> > problem? Once we understand what the problem is with IBM platform, then
> > we can propose a solution (using FADT perhaps) that is acceptable to
> > everyone.
> >
>
> Does the IBM platform set this bit in FADT?
No. If they had set it, kernel would have used physical mode and
wouldn't have seen this issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-09 10:10 Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-09 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-09 22:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-11 17:38 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-09 21:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-10 2:30 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-10 6:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-10 10:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-01-11 4:53 ` [PATCH] Revert 2fbd07a5f so machines with BSPs phsyical apic id != 0 can boot Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-01-11 21:39 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-11 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-11 23:45 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-11 23:51 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-12 2:27 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-14 0:03 ` Yuhong Bao
2010-01-11 21:43 ` [PATCH] Make Intel 8-way Xeons boot again Yinghai Lu
2010-01-11 21:53 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 19:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-12 20:20 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-12 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-12 21:07 ` Suresh Siddha [this message]
2010-01-12 22:46 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-13 4:42 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
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