Re: [PATCH] x86: Bypass legacy PIC and PIT on ACPI hardware reduced platform

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:43:08AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> >Using 'acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware' flag outside the ACPI code
> >is a mistake.
> 
> ideally, the presence of that flag in the firmware table will clear/set more global settings,
> for example, having that flag should cause the 8042 input code to not probe for the 8042.
> 
> for interrupts, there really ought to be a "apic first/only" mode, which is then used on
> all modern systems (not just hw reduced).

Do we need some sort of platform-specific querying interfaces now too,
similar to cpu_has()? I.e., platform_has()...

	if (platform_has(X86_PLATFORM_REDUCED_HW))
		do stuff..

Hmmm.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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