linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/apic changes for v2.6.38

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Date:	Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:22:21 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/apic changes for v2.6.38

On 01/06/2011 10:55 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>>
>> out-of-topic modifications in x86-apic-for-linus:
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> drivers/acpi/numa.c                # d3bd058: x86, acpi: Parse all SRAT cpu ent
> 
> Why is this x86-only? Aren't the same issues possible elsewhere?
> 
> Sure, ACPI is only used on x86 and ia64, and likely nobody cares about
> ia64, but that CONFIG_X86 still looks odd.
> 

Tony, as representative of the (ACPI - x86) universe, could you comment?
 I don't know if this is applicable on IA64.

	-hpa
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