Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:22:22 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Grover <andrew.grover@intel.com>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.4.22-pre4_x440-acpi-fix_A0
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, john stultz wrote:

> Marcelo, Andrew, All,
>
> 	Due to the new ACPI code, when booting in full ACPI mode, we do not go
> through the mps tables, thus we do not execute the summit detection code
> required for booting an x440.
>
> This patch insures that when booting in full ACPI mode we check to see
> if we're running on a summit based system and enable clustered apic
> mode. Without this patch the x440s hang while booting in full ACPI mode.
>
> Thanks to James Cleverdon for the original version of this patch.
>
> Please apply,


I just applied it John, it will be in bk soon.

But cant that be done in a cleaner way?

The acpi_madt_oem_check() call and implementation are the cleaner way of
doing this?

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