On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 01:25:17PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcg...@suse.com>
>
> Two Linux device drivers cannot work with PAT and the work
> required to make them work is significant. There is not
> enough motivation to convert these drivers over to use
> PAT properly, the compromise reached is to let drivers
> that cannot be ported to PAT check if PAT was enabled
> and if so fail on probe with a recommendation to boot
> with the "nopat" kernel parameter.
>
> Cc: Andy Walls <awa...@md.metrocast.net>
> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airl...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: x...@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcg...@suse.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Applied, thanks.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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