Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Wed, 28 May 2003 18:14:26 -0700


At some point in the past, my attribution was stripped from:
>> (1) APIC vs. xAPIC
>> (2) clustered hierarchical DFR vs. flat DFR
>> (3) physical DESTMOD vs. logical DESTMOD in IO-APIC RTE's
>> (4) wakeup via INIT or via NMI
>> (5) physical IPI's or logical IPI's
>> So one could easily form destinations by:

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:28:09AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Yes. It's fixable, and I think that's a good project for 2.7, but I really
> don't think that level of change is justified at the moment. Testing this
> stuff is a pain in the ass, it's a lot of work to do properly and carefully.
> And what does that change buy us in reality? Not a lot.
> I agree it would be nice to do ... just not the focus during a 2.6
> stabilisation effort, when we have so many other more important things to
> work on, that would have real impact.

Yes, it's 2.7 material.

-- wli
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