linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: split e820 reserved entries record to late v2

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:52:25 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David Witbrodt" <dawitbro@...global.net>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: split e820 reserved entries record to late v2

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> v2: insert e820 reserve resources before pnp_system_init
>
> Looks ok by me. Now it just needs testing ;)
>
> Does it actually fix the HPET regression on that odd machine (without the
> special hacks to recognize HPET explicitly)?
>

David,

can you test attached patch?
also you may try to revert the old patch.

YH

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