On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 09:32:40PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:33:18PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > Okay, in theory I could implement a feedback loop between timer-setup
> > and intremap code and try fixups until it works. But that seems not to
> > be worth it to work around a buggy BIOS.
>
> Yeah, same here. It's not like we really need intremap to work - we're
> only trying to fix the annoying error message currently. :-)
Right :)
> > What I actually thought about was providing an IVRS-override on the
> > kernel command line. So that you can specify the IOAPIC_ID->DEVID
> > mapping there and make it work this way. What do you think?
>
> I guess that is workable. I can imagine people wanting this if they want
> to do the intremap thing on such b0rked BIOSen. So how do I specify this
> IOAPIC_ID->DEVID mapping on the cmdline exactly?
Don't know yet, probably something like ivrs_ioapic[<apicid>]=0:14.2 and
ivrs_hpet[<hpet-id>]=0:14.2. But not entierly sure yet, at least parsing
shouldn't require lex and yacc ;)
> > Yeah, that's my fear too. So we leave it better as it is...
>
> Hohumm.
Thus shall it be!
Joerg
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
