Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:32:31 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] X86, UV: Update UV APIC driver check |
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* 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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