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SubjectRe: [patch 0/8] x86: UV - XPC fixes with related support functionality V2.

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> * Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > The UV BIOS has been updated to implement some of our interface
> > functionality differently than originally expected. These patches
> > update us to that working bios and include a few minor bug fixes
> > which prevent us from doing significant testing on real hardware.
> >
> > Changes from V1:
> >
> > - Actually include the patch introducing the gru_read_gpa. This
> > was missed in the V1 submission.
> >
> > - One additional BIOS change has the OS no longer passing blade
> > to the BIOS when registering a message queue watchlist.
>
> Note, the patches are a bit hard to review without diffstats - mind
> generating them for future patches? Also, putting a 'summary' diffstat
> (the total diffstat effect of all patches) into the 0/8 description mail
> is common courtesy that is much welcome by maintainers and reviewers as
> well.

Ah, sorry - they were there, just merged together with the patch so i
missed them.

Regarding the patches - i still very much dislike how the code
interfaces to the 'BIOS'. The drivers/misc/sgi-xp/ code looks rather
messy.

Why isnt a pure hardware interface exposed, as both hpa and me suggested
in the past?

Anyway ... these bits got merged via -mm in the past so i guess it could
be done there in the future too - the series does not look horrible -
but the whole concept ought to be done in a cleaner way.

Ingo


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