RE: ACPI patches updated (20030714)

From: Hugh Dickins (hugh@veritas.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 14:02:17 EST


On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Brown, Len wrote:
> > What's the schedule for Len's rework to Marcelo?
>
> I'm testing today and expect to push via Andy
> (http://linux-acpi.bkbits.net/to-andy-2.4) when when I'm satisifed I
> haven't toasted anything -- probably Wednesday.

Oh, thanks, that sounds very good, much the best if I don't interfere.
Three comments below.

> !ACPI && ACPI_HT_ONLY
> Minimal kernel to enable HT -- no ACPI
> acpi=cpu is the default behaviour here
> if somebody wants to disable ht, they can use "noht"
> This matches RHL's 2.4 distribution
>
> ACPI && !ACPI_HT_ONLY
> Full ACPI w/o the acpi=cpu option
> Maybe OSD's will get here some day

Shouldn't this combination also support "noht", or is that too much to ask?

> acpismp=force
> TODO: Delete.

Hurrah!

> noht
> Keep
> TODO: fix
> Disable HT for benefit of systems which perform better with HT
> disabled, but
> have a BIOS incapable of disabling HT.
> currently broken in 2.5

And it's currently broken in 2.4 also.

Thanks,
Hugh

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