Re: Latest tip kernel(3.2-rc1-tip_cf6b3899) fails to boot on x3850x5machine

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Dec 16 2011 - 03:42:28 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> config X86_X2APIC
> bool "Support x2apic"
> - depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64 && IRQ_REMAP
> + depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC && X86_64
> + select IRQ_REMAP

IRQ_REMAP is a 'complex' option:

config IRQ_REMAP
bool "Support for Interrupt Remapping (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on X86_64 && X86_IO_APIC && PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL
select DMAR_TABLE

and selecting such complex options is generally dangerous, as
the sub-dependencies are not explicitly selected. So if say
PCI_MSI or ACPI are disabled, the select will still be performed
by X86_X2APIC.

Can we make the IRQ_REMAP default depend on X86_X2APIC or so, to
solve this problem?

Thanks,

Ingo
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