Re: [PATCH] Automatically enable bigsmp on big HP machines

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 09:32:02 EST


On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:14:00 +0200
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:34:43PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:03:59 +0200
> > Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:38, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > This enables apic=bigsmp automatically on some big HP machines that need it.
> > > > This makes them boot without kernel parameters on a generic arch kernel.
> > >
> > > is it possible for this to use the new dmi infrastructure, eg not add it
> > > to dmi_scan.c but to the place where it's used ?
> >
> > Certainly. Feel free to post a patch for that.
>
> like this:

Looks good, thanks. Andrew, please merge Arjan's patch instead of mine.

-Andi
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