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From: Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan@buzzard.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: James Blackwell <jblack@linuxguru.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IRQ patch for Toshiba Char Driver in 2.5.34
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:39:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17qiyn-0001ZK-00@jelly.buzzard.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>  of "Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:02:02 +0200." <20020915200202.GA15744@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>



pavel@ucw.cz said:
> It would be nice to make it preempt/smp safe, through. [SMP notebooks
> are not so unreasonable; think p4 hyperthreading]. 

They are here. The code that is protected by cli() and friends does not
run on any anything more fancy than a Pentium. As I recall nothing but
mobile P90 in a Portage 610CT and a mobile P120 in a Tecra 700CDT/CDS.

JAB.

-- 
Jonathan A. Buzzard                 Email: jonathan@buzzard.org.uk
Northumberland, United Kingdom.       Tel: +44(0)1661-832195



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-16  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-09 11:59 James Blackwell
2002-09-09 19:39 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-11 10:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-15 15:42   ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-15 19:30     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-09-15 19:53       ` James Blackwell
2002-09-15 20:02         ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-15 22:27           ` Dave Jones
2002-09-15 23:39           ` Jonathan Buzzard [this message]
2002-09-16 11:59             ` Pavel Machek

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