RE: [PATCH] x86/apic/flat64: Add back the early_param("apic", parse_apic)

2020-05-30 Thread Dexuan Cui
> From: Randy Dunlap > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 6:33 AM > Hi, > Looks like you will also need to update > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, where it says: > > For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC > driver name. > -- > ~R

Re: [PATCH] x86/apic/flat64: Add back the early_param("apic", parse_apic)

2020-05-29 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 5/28/20 11:37 PM, Dexuan Cui wrote: > parse_apic() allows the user to try a different apic driver than the > default one that's automatically chosen. It works for x86_32, but > doesn't work for x86_64 becauase it was removed in 2009 for x86_64 by: > commit 7b38725318f4 ("x86: remove subarchitect

[PATCH] x86/apic/flat64: Add back the early_param("apic", parse_apic)

2020-05-28 Thread Dexuan Cui
parse_apic() allows the user to try a different apic driver than the default one that's automatically chosen. It works for x86_32, but doesn't work for x86_64 becauase it was removed in 2009 for x86_64 by: commit 7b38725318f4 ("x86: remove subarchitecture support code"), whose changelog doesn't exp