From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:46:48 +0200
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On Friday 29 September 2006 23:36, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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 ?

Yes, probably not for .19 though. I wanted to do it together 
with the removal of the APIC CONFIGs and a lot of cleanup in this
area that will come from that.

-Andi

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