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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>,
	Sachi King <nakato@nakato.io>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/i8259: Work around buggy legacy PIC
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 10:35:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c26954e1-bb2f-086a-9c7f-68382978efe7@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im3l43w9.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

On 5/14/21 10:32 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> That's a valid assumption. As I said, we can make IOAPIC work even w/o
> PIC. I'll have a look how much PIC assumptions are still around.
> 

As far as I read, the problem isn't actually the absence of a PIC (we 
definitely boot systems without PICs all the time now), but rather that 
the PIC is advertised in ACPI but is buggy or absent; a similar platform 
with different firmware doesn't have problem.

If my understanding of the thread is correct, it's quirk fodder.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-14 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-12 21:04 [PATCH] x86/i8259: Work around buggy legacy PIC Maximilian Luz
2021-05-13  8:10 ` David Laight
2021-05-13 10:11   ` Maximilian Luz
2021-05-13 10:36     ` David Laight
2021-05-14 13:01       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-14 13:13         ` David Laight
2021-05-14 16:19           ` Ingo Molnar
2021-05-14 19:41       ` Sachi King
2021-05-14 10:51         ` David Laight
2021-05-14 11:58         ` Maximilian Luz
2021-05-14 17:32           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-14 17:35             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2021-05-14 22:47               ` Maximilian Luz
2021-05-17 18:40                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 19:25                   ` Maximilian Luz
2021-05-17 23:27                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-18  8:28                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-18 19:58                       ` Sachi King
2021-05-18 15:45                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-14 13:44     ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-14 16:12       ` David Laight
2021-05-14 17:28         ` H. Peter Anvin

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