RE: [RESEND][PATCH v3] x86/apic/flat64: Add back the early_param("apic", parse_apic)

2020-09-06 Thread Dexuan Cui
> From: Thomas Gleixner > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 6:03 AM > [...] Hi, I'm very sorry for this extremely late reply -- I was sidetracked by something else and I just had a chance to revisit the issue. Thank you tglx for the comments and suggestions, which I think are reasonable. I realized th

Re: [RESEND][PATCH v3] x86/apic/flat64: Add back the early_param("apic", parse_apic)

2020-07-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dexuan Cui writes: What has the early param to do with apic/flat64? > parse_apic() allows the user to try a different APIC driver than the > default one that's automatically chosen. It works for X86-32, but > doesn't work for X86-64 because it was removed in 2009 for X86-64 by > commit 7b3872531

Re: [RESEND][PATCH v3] x86/apic/flat64: Add back the early_param("apic", parse_apic)

2020-07-13 Thread Wei Liu
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:21:06AM -0700, Dexuan Cui wrote: > parse_apic() allows the user to try a different APIC driver than the > default one that's automatically chosen. It works for X86-32, but > doesn't work for X86-64 because it was removed in 2009 for X86-64 by > commit 7b38725318f4 ("x86:

[RESEND][PATCH v3] x86/apic/flat64: Add back the early_param("apic", parse_apic)

2020-06-26 Thread Dexuan Cui
parse_apic() allows the user to try a different APIC driver than the default one that's automatically chosen. It works for X86-32, but doesn't work for X86-64 because it was removed in 2009 for X86-64 by commit 7b38725318f4 ("x86: remove subarchitecture support code"), whose changelog doesn't expli