Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:11:44 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [x86-tip] RSDP changes converted i4790 box SMP -> UP |
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* Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi Juergen, > > Yesterday I wanted to test the RETPOLINE stuff in tip and tip-rt, but > discovered instead that my box had turned into a complete slug, not due > to incredible RETPOLINE overhead, rather because box had forgotten that > it had more than one CPU. I was going to leave it for the weekend, but > firing up gitk over morning java, I noticed the commits below, and sure > enough, that's what broke my box. Given other people's boxen work, > seems likely that the authors of the AMI BIOS in this box were a bit > more creative than usual. > > commit 9ede5d5e672586e016eadd5c0aedb6f12e660029 (HEAD -> x86-tip) > Author: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> > Date: Fri Jan 12 04:17:52 2018 +0100 > > Revert "x86/boot: Add the ACPI RSDP address to struct setup_header::acpi_rdsp_addr" > > This reverts commit 2f74cbf947f45fa082dda8eac1a1f1299a372f49. > > commit 0d0b6a9a0d452eaf635580fce8319d49be8b45ed > Author: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> > Date: Fri Jan 12 04:17:30 2018 +0100 > > Revert "x86/acpi: Take the RSDP address for boot parameters if available" > > This reverts commit 0c89cf36424f7c1177de8a5712514d7cc2eb369f. >
Ok, I've excluded tip:x86/boot from tip:master for the time being - these commits are not v4.16 ready apparently.
Thanks,
Ingo
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