On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:32:29 +0100 Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > hm, that doesn't seem right. We want to run the early quirks on non-ACPI
> > kernel too, surely?
>
> Most of early-quirks.c makes only sense with ACPI. The only exception would
> be the ATI timer override check, but frankly it's fairly unlikely that there
> are any ATI based boards around who still have mptables. Non ACPI
> tables would very likely just run in PIC mode and then need no timer overrides
> anyways.
>
> Originally on i386 the early quirks equivalent was 100% ACPI specific.
>
OK.... But what's The Right Thing To Do here? Would one be reasonable in
expecting that one can add a new early quirk which is independent from acpi
and have it still work on non-acpi builds?
Seems better to decouple the two things if poss?
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