Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751293AbZL1Byt (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:54:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751159AbZL1Bys (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:54:48 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:52361 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751048AbZL1Bys (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:54:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:54:46 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Alain Knaff Cc: Andi Kleen , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Mark Hounschell , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , "dmarkh@cfl.rr.com" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "fdutils@fdutils.linux.lu" , "Li, Shaohua" , Ingo Molnar , morgan@physics.ucla.edu, JONES@UINPLA.NPL.UIUC.EDU Subject: Re: [Fdutils] DMA cache consistency bug introduced in 2.6.28 Message-ID: <20091228015446.GA3012@basil.fritz.box> References: <4B32386B.2060509@compro.net> <87bphpd4rt.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20091223170832.GH20539@basil.fritz.box> <20091225132116.6c9089f2@infradead.org> <20091225203304.GA22306@basil.fritz.box> <20091226103835.68479100@infradead.org> <20091226164029.GA10256@basil.fritz.box> <4B3752F5.3080205@knaff.lu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B3752F5.3080205@knaff.lu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 25 > disable_hlt/enable_hlt was only needed to work around a bug on TM4000 > (Texas Instrument) Laptops which were popular around 1994 / 1995. I don't think we can fully drop support for these systems. Did they have an unique PCI ID or something else that could be tested for? Perhaps it could be just a white list like dmi_year > 1995 to disable. Depending on how often floppies are still used this might save non trivial amounts of power on newer systems :) Anyways it would be probably good to convert this to the new infrastructure, and remove the old hooks, but the interrupt-context issue would need to be fixed first. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/