Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, ioapic: Reserve only 128 bytes for IOAPICs

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Fri Aug 26 2011 - 05:56:39 EST


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:53:20AM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Hi Ralf, I can't put that risk on you. Hell knows how it will react
> > on such reprogramming (which is seems rather a bios duty than kernel).
>
> Oh, we are talking about that kind of problems? It's my main (and only) work
> laptop, so... thanks for the warning ;-)
>

Yeah, i'm just curious ;) Anyway, Bjorn's patch fixes your problem
and the warn_on I proposed might be added later, on top of this
patch.

Cyrill
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