Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:15:50 +0100 | From | Dominik Brodowski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/11] ACPI: early _PDC eval and unify x86/ia64 |
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Hey,
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:19:04PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote: > This does introduce a boot time namespace walk for all the CPUs > in the system, looking for and evaluating _PDC. Hopefully that > will not make life miserable for the giant SGI clusters. If worse > comes to worse, maybe we can quirk them and avoid the namespace > walk.
Could this be done async, with completion before EC initialization?
Best, Dominik
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