On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:25:47 -0400 Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> The use of "apic=" on the boot line is overloaded. It is used once to
> override the type of genapic, and then later on it is used to determine a
> debug
> level. Because of this a bogus error message is sent to the console when
> using
> the debug option:
>
> Unknown genapic `apic=debug' specified.
>
> This patch changes the genapic situation to use "genapic=".
>
> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks, looks good except that the Subject line could confuse
someone (s/acpi/apic/).
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> index ef2ffde..8cbd90c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -589,6 +589,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in
> the file
>
> gamma= [HW,DRM]
>
> + genapic= [APIC,i386] Select a specific genapic type to be used.
> + Format: <name>
> +
> gdth= [HW,SCSI]
> See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c.
>
> diff --git a/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c b/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c
> index a7b3999..cabe31b 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static int __init parse_apic(char *arg)
> /* Parsed again by __setup for debug/verbose */
> return 0;
> }
> -early_param("apic", parse_apic);
> +early_param("genapic", parse_apic);
>
> void __init generic_bigsmp_probe(void)
> {
> -
---
~Randy
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