Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jun 2007 15:54:40 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] IO-APIC blacklist |
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On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 14:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> That blacklist entry is _ancient_. It's entirely possible that it's just > bogus: we've had so many ACPI fixes since it was added, that it's quite > possible that the blacklist entry itself is bogus, and is the result of > some old ACPI bug that triggered on that entry. > > The Dell GX240 entry was added by commit 68e4ad79294 in the historic Linux > archive: > > Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> > Date: Sat Aug 9 15:00:59 2003 -0400 > > ACPI from 2.4: > build: add ACPI_HT, delete ACPI_HT_ONLY > boot: add acpi={force, off, ht}; delete "noht", "acpismp=" > add DMI blacklist from UnitedLinux > > and since it sounds like the machine _works_ with ACPI on, my real > preference would be to just remove the black-list entry. > > In fact, I thought that patch already existed in the -mm tree?
It is. remove-dell-optiplex-gx240-from-the-acpi-blacklist.patch
> Len - do you have any archives back from 2003 and earlier to indicate why > the Dell GX240 was blacklisted?
"add DMI blacklist from UnitedLinux". Lost in the mists of time, I expect.
I guess we can tag remove-dell-optiplex-gx240-from-the-acpi-blacklist.patch as "backport to 2.6.22.x if it doesn't break anything in 2.6.23-rcX". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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