From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [arch-x86] Allow SRAT integrity check to be skipped
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:51:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283971889.18468.13.camel@pjaxe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C87CFFC.8050709@zytor.com>
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On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 11:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 11:55 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> >>
> >> If this is a production BIOS it should have this information.
> >
> > The point was -- it wasn't a production BIOS and the production
> > BIOS will be fixed.
> >
>
> From the original description:
>
> This patch adds a boot parameter to allow a kernel to be booted
> with the option to skip the SRAT check. There are BIOSes in
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> production that have these failures, so this will allow people
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> in the field to work around these BIOS issues.
>
>
> Agreed that command-line option is a good thing to have in general and
> that it is not necessary to have DMI quirks for preproduction BIOSes.
Right. The new patchset (when I finish it) will have the DMI quirk for
this specific production NHM-EX, plus the command-line option.
-PJ
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-01 21:33 [PATCH] [arch-x86] Allow SRAT integrity check to be skipped Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-09-01 21:33 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-01 22:04 ` rdunlap
2010-09-01 22:11 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-09-08 19:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-03 10:04 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-02 6:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-02 10:03 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-03 6:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-07 19:38 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-09-07 19:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-07 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-07 20:16 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-09-07 20:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-08 6:55 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-08 18:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-08 18:51 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr [this message]
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