On 13-Jan-09, Olaf Dabrunz wrote: > On 13-Jan-09, Stefan Assmann wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > > > Jon Masters wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:51 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > >> (I added Eric, Maciej, and Jon because they participated in > > >> previous discussion here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/2/269) > > > > > > Thanks. You know what I'd really like even more than being on the CC? > > > I'd *love* someone to post a link to documentation on how this actually > > > is supposed to work. We had to guess last time because none of the > > > public documentation actually explains this. The guys at SuSE likely > > > received some docs, but I'm not sure where from or the title thereof. > > > > Actually, most of the Boot Interrupt patches resulted from reading the > > intel specs and observing the behavior of failing machines. We're trying > > to wrap up all the information gathered in a paper, which is pretty time > > consuming and a few steps away from being ready to publish. > > We read the specs of the chips, analyzed code, put up hypotheses and > tested them. Then read the specs again, finding new hypotheses and > tested again. Also reading what you guys sent out to lkml and reading > through the public discussions for *BSD, Darwin, XEN etc. helped. > And some colleagues discussed hypotheses and solution attempts with us. > > We summarized many of our end results in a presentation that we gave > internally, and I am working on making this available online (in > addition to the paper/slides that Stefan mentions below). The presentation can be found at http://www.suse.de/~odabrunz/Boot_Interrupts_and_IRQ_Threads.pdf Some parts of it have been corrected and updated. Please do not miss the "Details" slides after the License and the Disclaimer. The Details should answer many questions. Thanks, -- Olaf Dabrunz (od/odabrunz), SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nürnberg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
