Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:14:18 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [git pull, take 2] x86 updates for v2.6.28, phase #9, sparse IRQ support |
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* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote: > > > >> Ingo Molnar wrote: > >>> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Linus, > >>>> > >>>> Please pull the latest x86-v28-for-linus-phase9 git tree from: > >>>> > >>>> Sparse IRQ support - make NR_IRQS dynamic by turning it into nr_irqs, > >>>> an by creating irq descriptors in a sparse way. > >>>> > >>>> Includes a number of dependent x86 topics: timers/hpet-percpu, IO-APIC > >>>> and local APIC code unification, UV support updates. > >>>> > >>>> Has been cross-built on all architectures we could get crosscompilers > >>>> for: > >>>> > >>>> http://www.tglx.de/autoqa/index > >>>> > >>>> It should be largely uneventful for sparse-irq unaware, non-x86 > >>>> architectures. > >>> please find updated pull request below. Relative to phase-N-1. Updates > >>> from today in this class of topics: > >>> > >>> b570868: x86: apic - unify APIC_DIVISOR > >>> > >>> And i removed: > >>> > >>> eada62c: acpi/x86: introduce __apci_map_table, v4 > >>> > >>> [ Cc:-ed Yinghai for that - we can live without that patch (i.e. we at > >>> most get a leak warning) and can have that via acpi.git, correct? ] > >> yes. we have several patches that even didn't pick up for a while. > >> > >> also please ask Linus to pull pci tree from Jesse before sparseirq. > >> > >> because we need > >> PCI: change MSI-x vector to 32bit > >> > >> in pci tree. > > > > is it absolutely needed? > > > > qla2xxx with MSI-X will crash. only happend with the new card that support msi-x. > > so it is not absolutely needed.
but as Jesse noted we have:
9e40236: pci: change msi-x vector to 32bit
included in irq/sparseirq so it should be fine and there's no dependency on the PCI tree.
Ingo
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