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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:37:35 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, codalist@...emann.coda.cs.cmu.edu, ksummit-2010-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org, autofs@...ux.kernel.org, Jan Harkes <jaharkes@...cmu.edu>, Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@...app.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@...cvut.cz>, Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:24:53PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:40:04 PDT, Greg KH said: > > > I do have access to this hardware, but its on an old single processor > > laptop, so any work that it would take to help do this development, > > really wouldn't be able to be tested to be valid at all. > > The i810 is a graphics chipset embedded on the memory controller, which > was designed for the Intel Pentium II, Pentium III, and Celeron CPUs. Page 8 > of the datasheet specifically says: > > Processor/Host Bus Support > - Optimized for the Intel Pentium II processor, Intel Pentium III processor, and Intel > CeleronTM processor > - Supports processor 370-Pin Socket and SC242 > connectors > - Supports 32-Bit System Bus Addressing > - 4 deep in-order queue; 4 or 1 deep request queue > - Supports Uni-processor systems only > > So no need to clean it up for multiprocessor support. > > http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29067602.pdf > http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/29069403.pdf Great, we can just drop all calls to lock_kernel() and the like in the driver and be done with it, right? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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