Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422826AbWI2VhA (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:37:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422828AbWI2VhA (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:37:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:6629 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422826AbWI2Vg7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:36:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:36:44 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar , Jim Cromie , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 Message-ID: <20060929213644.GH22014@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Jim Cromie , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060928014623.ccc9b885.akpm@osdl.org> <200609290108.15400.ak@suse.de> <20060929201449.GA32262@elte.hu> <200609292236.15330.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200609292236.15330.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 18 On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:36:15PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > The only reason to not use it are old broken BIOS or old CPUs > without local APIC, but those can be all handled at runtime like > the 64bit kernel does. > > The SUSE kernel has a imho good default heuristic based on > DMI date, DMI number of processors and of course trusting the ACPI tables > (don't use if disabled there) Any plans to push those heuristics to mainline too ? Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/