Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753787Ab0ALVLL (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:11:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752432Ab0ALVLK (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:11:10 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:51709 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751029Ab0ALVLJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:11:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4B4CE35D.4040801@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:02:21 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Suresh Siddha CC: Yinghai Lu , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , lkml , "stable@kernel.org" , Thomas Gleixner , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make Intel 8-way Xeons boot again References: <20100109101038.GA17555@in.ibm.com> <86802c441001091313y1f64f011t616f08cd282a7123@mail.gmail.com> <20100110023015.GA2253@in.ibm.com> <86802c441001092235j79092e6fse18b61e3d7b0ac6@mail.gmail.com> <20100110102638.GA7838@elte.hu> <86802c441001111343p2afaafb7o702884e632260bf7@mail.gmail.com> <1263246829.2859.537.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> <86802c441001121110u2f3dcfbpafb0d9c4bb6a4e4d@mail.gmail.com> <1263327630.2854.448.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1263327630.2854.448.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 878 Lines: 24 On 01/12/2010 12:20 PM, Suresh Siddha wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:10 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> if the system can not use logical flat. >> >> should have some bit set in FADT... > > Yinghai, Sorry. I am not sure what you are referring to here. I have > mentioned about FADT in another thread, so not sure what you mean by > this here. > > Are you referring that bios for the IBM system can use this to fix their > problem? Once we understand what the problem is with IBM platform, then > we can propose a solution (using FADT perhaps) that is acceptable to > everyone. > Does the IBM platform set this bit in FADT? -hpa -- 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/