> -----Original Message----- > From: Horms [mailto:horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 2006年8月18日 8:39 > To: Eric W. Biederman > Cc: Andrew Morton; fastboot@xxxxxxxx; Zou, Nanhai; Luck, Tony; > linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [patch 3/5] git-ia64 versus genirq > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:58:45 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:28:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:07:22 +0900 > >>> horms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> > >>>> > commit 1f4c5c1fe2a6a74271989ec079af11e2bb8e2826 > >>>> > tree a0da63a3dcc3ffd71653ecc039db416dbcaa86d4 > >>>> > parent beada884dd437b509c26b39f1a0b0c6b31e6f340 > >>>> > author Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 1151573360 -0700 > >>>> > committer Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> 1151607053 -0700 > >>>> > > >>>> > [IA64] git-ia64 versus genirq > >>>> > > >>>> > Fix the git-ia64 tree after genirq merge. > >>>> > > >>>> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> > >>>> > Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> > >>>> > >>>> Patch from test branch of Tony Luck's ia64 tree. > >>>> This is needed for ia64 kexec in Linus's tree. > >>>> > >>> > >>> I think you're telling us that Tony needs to get this into mainline, yes? > >> > >> This would be ia64 kexec. > problem. > >> > >> At OLS Tony spoke about what state he would like to see kexec in before > >> it is merged into Linus' tree. Basically reports that it works on > >> at least a cople of different vendor's gear. That is proving harder > >> than one might have hoped. But the code is marked as experimental, > >> and if pushing it into Linus's tree both makes patch management a bit > >> easier, and potentially gives the code better testing, then it seems > Hi Eric, > > Clearly you are right that it would be a lot nicer to resolve the > problem in the init path. Perhaps an interim solution would be to wrap > these bits of code in #ifdef CONFIG_IA64_HP_ZX1 (Nan hai, would that > cover the hardware that you are seeing the problem on?) and/or break it > out into a separate add-on, very-wip patch. Hi Horms, I have little knowledge of the code inside CONFIG_IA64_HP_ZX1.... I think it stop's IOMMU controller on some HP boxes. Aziz told me it is necessary to have this code to start up the second kernel. Thanks Zou Nan hai > Horms > H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ > W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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