linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 10/16] x86/mce: enable Hygon support to MCE infrastructure

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Date:   Thu, 6 Sep 2018 23:47:31 +0800
From:   Pu Wen <puwen@...on.cn>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
        x86@...nel.org, thomas.lendacky@....com, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        tony.luck@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/16] x86/mce: enable Hygon support to MCE
 infrastructure

On 2018/9/6 20:29, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Say what now?! What testing do you do if you boot a kernel which doesn't
> even use the functionality you're testing?!

I'm sorry, this case is not good to demonstrate the useage. And I think
there are no other people will do the test without MCE in kernel. So
with MCE enabled in kernel is the main case to support.

> The first way but change that dependency to CPU_SUP_AMD because there
> are people building their own kernels and don't run distro configs. And
> you need CPU_SUP_AMD because you're using their code.

That's good, will select CPU_SUP_AMD for CPU_SUP_HYGON to solve the
dependency issues in kernel.

-- 
Regards,
Pu Wen