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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:49:17 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:27:53PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 01-08-08 11:51, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> >find attached below a newer version of the original list i published
> >half a year ago:
> >
> > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/auto-qa-patches/Kconfig-qa.patch
> >
> >these are just pragmatic local hacks to get things going. (There are
> >more per machine quirks as well.)
> >
> >i have not used a BROKEN annotation because CONFIG_BROKEN is
> >impractical: it just kills code altogether, indiscriminately. There's no
> >way for users to enable CONFIG_BROKEN in the upstream kernel - nothing
> >selects it and it's not an interactive option either.
> >
> >So by all means if we mark a driver or a kernel feature as
> >CONFIG_BROKEN, it's killed altogether for all practical purposes.
> >
> >What we'd need is some more gradual approach: for example a way to mark
> >"drivers that are not expected to boot on a whitebox PC", without
> >removing them altogether via a CONFIG_BROKEN dependency - often it's
> >hardware that cannot be probed safely.
>
> For real ISA at the least, the best fix I feel is just not go grabbing
> resources without anything (ie, ISAPnP) or anyone (ie, the user) telling
Really old systems don't have isapnp. Neither have smbus devices.
> us that's where the hardware's at.
That would mean the users on these systems would need to add tons
of obscure command line options.
-Andi
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