Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce a new Linux defined feature flag for PATsupport

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Subject: x86: cleanup PAT cpu validation
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 09:18:43 +0200
> >
> > Move the scattered checks for PAT support to a single function. Its 
> > moved to addon_cpuid_features.c as this file is shared between 32 and 
> > 64 bit.
>
> thanks Thomas, i have applied your cleanup patch - looks good here too 
> and it booted fine on a few boxes.
>
> (i did a small cleanup: changed the define to static const int)
>
> Peter, what are your plans for a more general cleanup and 32-bit/64-bit 
> unification for the x86 CPU detection code - do you have any specific 
> ideas already? I suspect we want it all to end up unified under 
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/, by moving the relevant bits of 
> arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c there, right? It is no small task for sure.

Yes, that's the plan, and no, it's not a small task.

	-hpa
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