linux-kernel - Re: [git pull, take 2] x86 updates for v2.6.28, phase #9, sparse IRQ support

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Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:34:56 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull, take 2] x86 updates for v2.6.28, phase #9, sparse IRQ	support

On Friday, October 10, 2008 12:11 pm Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> >> Linus,
> >>
> >> Please pull the latest x86-v28-for-linus-phase9 git tree from:
> >>
> >> Sparse IRQ support - make NR_IRQS dynamic by turning it into nr_irqs,
> >> an by creating irq descriptors in a sparse way.
> >>
> >> Includes a number of dependent x86 topics: timers/hpet-percpu, IO-APIC
> >> and local APIC code unification, UV support updates.
> >>
> >> Has been cross-built on all architectures we could get crosscompilers
> >> for:
> >>
> >>   http://www.tglx.de/autoqa/index
> >>
> >> It should be largely uneventful for sparse-irq unaware, non-x86
> >> architectures.
> >
> > please find updated pull request below. Relative to phase-N-1. Updates
> > from today in this class of topics:
> >
> >   b570868: x86: apic - unify APIC_DIVISOR
> >
> > And i removed:
> >
> >   eada62c: acpi/x86: introduce __apci_map_table, v4
> >
> > [ Cc:-ed Yinghai for that - we can live without that patch (i.e. we at
> >   most get a leak warning) and can have that via acpi.git, correct? ]
>
> yes. we have several patches that even didn't pick up for a while.
>
> also please ask Linus to pull pci tree from Jesse before sparseirq.
>
> because we need
> 	PCI: change MSI-x vector to 32bit
>
> in pci tree.

I should have my pull ready soon; I'd like to do some cross compile tests with 
my latest bits first.  But I think Ingo has a copy of this commit anyway so 
it may be ok for Linus to pull anyway.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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