Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:55:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] IO-APIC blacklist |
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On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Tear wrote: > > > > Wouldn't this also disable the IOAPIC in the (working) ACPI+IOAPIC case? > > Yes, it would. However, I wanted to make my addition > to the kernel generic so that other people with > problematic IO-APIC implementations can blacklist > their systems without checking whether ACPI is enabled > or not.
But that's just wrong. First off, all distro kernels come with ACPI on, so the thing you're fixing is really just for somebody who compiles his own kernel in a particular (and unusual/strange) configuration, and you're making it _worse_ for everybody else.
And you're blacklisting it without even understaning _what_ is wrong. I really think we should figure that part out first,
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