Re: [PATCH] 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 x86_64 genapic update

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:37:27PM -0500, Jason Davis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> x86_64 genapic mechanism should be aware of machines that use physical APIC 
> mode regardless of how many clusters/processors are detected. ACPI 3.0 FADT 
> makes this determination very simple by providing a feature flag 
> "force_apic_physical_destination_mode" to state whether the machine 
> unconditionally uses physical APIC mode. Unisys' next generation x86_64 
> ES7000 will need to utilize this FADT feature flag in order to boot the 
> x86_64 kernel in the correct APIC mode. This patch has been tested on both 
> x86_64 commodity and ES7000 boxes.

Patch is ok for me.

-Andi
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