Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:49:48 +0200 | From | Olaf Dabrunz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Boot IRQ quirks for Broadcom and AMD/ATI |
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On 14-Jul-08, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote: > > > > applied to tip/x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks, thanks Olaf. > > > > > > Jesse, what do you think about this topic? We are keeping it > > > separate for the time being. They are not particularly pretty, but > > > being able to mask/unmask irqs (without generating those legacy IRQs > > > and creating an IRQ storm) is essential to -rt. > > > > See my other reply; the branch looks good. I agree that making sure > > -rt can work is an important feature. My only concern is that this is > > touching so much hardware specific code that *something* is likely to > > break. But as long as Olaf & co. can help track down any issues, I'm > > ok with it. > > ok. We'll cook it a bit more in tip/master and then send it over to you > once all the dependent changes have gone upstream in the merge window, > ok? I think it's v2.6.27 worthy stuff - nicely localized, sufficiently > finegrained and any problems with it has to be debugged the hard way by > exposing people to them ...
Ack. :)
Thanks,
-- Olaf Dabrunz (od/odabrunz), SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nürnberg
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