Re: [PATCH] x86: Bypass legacy PIC and PIT on ACPI hardware reduced platform

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Mar 04 2015 - 09:07:15 EST


On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 03:16:07PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Sort of. What we need is a "do not touch PIC/PIT" bit for the code that
> tries to fall back to them in some cases (which may appear to work if
> the hardware is physically there, but it may confuse the platform).

Can "some cases" detection be nicely put into a x86_platform
platform-specific method?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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