linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] IPMI: new NMI handling

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Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:53:09 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	minyard@....org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] IPMI: new NMI handling

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:40:57 -0500
Corey Minyard <minyard@....org> wrote:

> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
> -#include <asm/apic.h>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> +/* This is ugly, but I've determined that x86 is the only architecture
> +   that can reasonably support the IPMI NMI watchdog timeout at this
> +   time.  If another architecture adds this capability somehow, it
> +   will have to be a somewhat different mechanism and I have no idea
> +   how it will work.  So in the unlikely event that another
> +   architecture supports this, we can figure out a good generic
> +   mechanism for it at that time. */
> +#include <asm/kdebug.h>
> +#define HAVE_DIE_NMI

A preferred way of doing this would be to add a new CONFIG_IPMI_USE_IPMI in
arch/i386/Kconfig and arch/x86_64/Kconfig only, then use that in the ipmi
code.
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