Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:50:11 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Bypass legacy PIC and PIT on ACPI hardware reduced platform |
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On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 12:43:08AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > >Using 'acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware' flag outside the ACPI code > >is a mistake. > > ideally, the presence of that flag in the firmware table will clear/set more global settings, > for example, having that flag should cause the 8042 input code to not probe for the 8042. > > for interrupts, there really ought to be a "apic first/only" mode, which is then used on > all modern systems (not just hw reduced).
Do we need some sort of platform-specific querying interfaces now too, similar to cpu_has()? I.e., platform_has()...
if (platform_has(X86_PLATFORM_REDUCED_HW)) do stuff..
Hmmm.
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