Re: arch/x86/Kconfig: not select X86_MPPARSE when SFI is present

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Oct 25 2012 - 03:57:58 EST



* Bin Gao <bin.gao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> MPS tables are not needed for systems that have proper ACPI support.
> This is also true for systems that have SFI in place.
>
> So this patch is to exclude X86_MPPARSE when either ACPI or SFI is present.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Gao <bin.gao@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 46c3bff..b1494bd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ config X86_X2APIC
> If you don't know what to do here, say N.
>
> config X86_MPPARSE
> - bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI
> + bool "Enable MPS table" if ACPI || SFI
> default y
> depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC
> ---help---

The changelog does not seem to match the patch. Did you want to
say:

" So this patch allows the configuration (turning off) of
CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE when either ACPI or SFI is present. "

?

Ingo
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