linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-mm2

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Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:36:44 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:36:15PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

 > The only reason to not use it are old broken BIOS or old CPUs 
 > without local APIC, but those can be all handled at runtime like
 > the 64bit kernel does.
 > 
 > The SUSE kernel has a imho good default heuristic based on 
 > DMI date, DMI number of processors and of course trusting the ACPI tables
 > (don't use if disabled there) 
 
Any plans to push those heuristics to mainline too ?

	Dave
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