Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:37:35 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do |
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:24:53PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:40:04 PDT, Greg KH said: > > > I do have access to this hardware, but its on an old single processor > > laptop, so any work that it would take to help do this development, > > really wouldn't be able to be tested to be valid at all. > > The i810 is a graphics chipset embedded on the memory controller, which > was designed for the Intel Pentium II, Pentium III, and Celeron CPUs. Page 8 > of the datasheet specifically says: > > Processor/Host Bus Support > - Optimized for the Intel Pentium II processor, Intel Pentium III processor, and Intel > CeleronTM processor > - Supports processor 370-Pin Socket and SC242 > connectors > - Supports 32-Bit System Bus Addressing > - 4 deep in-order queue; 4 or 1 deep request queue > - Supports Uni-processor systems only > > So no need to clean it up for multiprocessor support. > > http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29067602.pdf > http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/29069403.pdf
Great, we can just drop all calls to lock_kernel() and the like in the driver and be done with it, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
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