From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt•edu
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail•com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>,
codalist@telemann•coda.cs.cmu.edu,
ksummit-2010-discuss@lists•linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:37:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019193735.GA4043@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21406.1287512693@localhost>
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:24:53PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt•edu wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:40:04 PDT, Greg KH said:
>
> > I do have access to this hardware, but its on an old single processor
> > laptop, so any work that it would take to help do this development,
> > really wouldn't be able to be tested to be valid at all.
>
> The i810 is a graphics chipset embedded on the memory controller, which
> was designed for the Intel Pentium II, Pentium III, and Celeron CPUs. Page 8
> of the datasheet specifically says:
>
> Processor/Host Bus Support
> - Optimized for the Intel Pentium II processor, Intel Pentium III processor, and Intel
> CeleronTM processor
> - Supports processor 370-Pin Socket and SC242
> connectors
> - Supports 32-Bit System Bus Addressing
> - 4 deep in-order queue; 4 or 1 deep request queue
> - Supports Uni-processor systems only
>
> So no need to clean it up for multiprocessor support.
>
> http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29067602.pdf
> http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/29069403.pdf
Great, we can just drop all calls to lock_kernel() and the like in the
driver and be done with it, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 14:32 Remaining BKL users, what to do Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-16 14:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-16 18:32 ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-17 18:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-16 15:04 ` Jan Kara
2010-09-16 21:26 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2010-09-17 10:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-17 13:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-17 13:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-17 14:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-17 14:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-16 15:07 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-16 20:08 ` David Miller
2010-09-16 16:09 ` Anders Larsen
2010-09-16 16:57 ` Samuel Ortiz
2010-09-16 20:08 ` David Miller
2010-09-20 1:25 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2010-10-18 15:42 ` [v2] " Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-18 17:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 18:43 ` [Ksummit-2010-discuss] " Greg KH
2010-10-18 23:00 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 0:40 ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 0:57 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 2:24 ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 2:45 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 3:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-19 4:03 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 5:00 ` Theodore Kilgore
2010-10-19 4:52 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19 7:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 12:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-19 13:54 ` Paul Mundt
2010-10-19 13:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 20:50 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-20 16:14 ` Ville Syrjälä
2010-10-19 18:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-10-19 19:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-10-19 19:40 ` Oliver Neukum
2010-10-19 20:29 ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 20:38 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-10-19 20:41 ` Alan Cox
2010-10-19 20:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 20:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-20 4:43 ` Dave Young
2010-10-20 6:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-02 1:21 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-03 6:58 ` Pekka Enberg
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