linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/9] x86/moorestown: add moorestown platform flags

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:29:37 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	"Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] x86/moorestown: add moorestown platform flags

* Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> > The thing is, you are trying to defend a v1 patch-set here that 
> > is really indefensible: it's ugly and deficient in numerous 
> > smaller and larger details. I outlined numerous deficiencies 
> > already - and i'll review v2 too to see what else is there to 
> > fix.
> 
> No I'm trying to understand what you actually want the thing to 
> look like.

It's a case by case thing and i pointed out a few specific 
directions in the review. The IO-APIC changes should probably go on 
top of Jeremy's IO-APIC driver-ization patches. They dont 
necessarily need their own IO-APIC driver (if the resulting line 
count increase is too much), but they should not wreck Jeremy's 
IO-APIC patches.

Bootup quirks that are small modificatons to existing PC 
initialization sequences should go into x86_quirks.

Timer related changes (the APB system timer) are mostly modular 
already by virtue of half of it being a clocksource and clockevents 
driver. The remaining bit of system timer handling should be 
abstracted out as a 'struct x86_system_timer' kind of structure, 
with ->init, ->timer_irq and ->shutdown functions.

[ Although it is beyond me why ABP was done - why wasnt HPET good
  enough? HPET can do per CPU clockevents too and it's just as 
  off-chip (and hence fundamentally slow) as ABP. ]

	Ingo
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