On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:32:29 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > hm, that doesn't seem right. We want to run the early quirks on non-ACPI > > kernel too, surely? > > Most of early-quirks.c makes only sense with ACPI. The only exception would > be the ATI timer override check, but frankly it's fairly unlikely that there > are any ATI based boards around who still have mptables. Non ACPI > tables would very likely just run in PIC mode and then need no timer overrides > anyways. > > Originally on i386 the early quirks equivalent was 100% ACPI specific. > OK.... But what's The Right Thing To Do here? Would one be reasonable in expecting that one can add a new early quirk which is independent from acpi and have it still work on non-acpi builds? Seems better to decouple the two things if poss? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
