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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] X86, UV: Update UV APIC driver check

* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:

> Fix a bug in the oem check function that determines if the system
> is a UV system and the BIOS is compatible with the kernel's UV apic
> driver. This prevents some possibly obscure panics and guards the
> system against being started on SGI hardware that does not have the
> required kernel support. [...]

This would be one patch ...

> [...] Also add update for new UV3000 system.

... and that's a second patch.

> The first "OEM" check was also optimized to return faster if the
> system is not an SGI or UV system.

Looks like this mixes up with the fix and can be part of the first
patch - although ideally it would have been good to create a 3 patch
series to preserve the separation of the various changes.

Thanks,

Ingo


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