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[PATCH] clean up Unisys ES7000 specific code RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]Clea

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] clean up Unisys ES7000 specific code RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]Clean up es7000 specific bootup code
From: "Subrahmanian, Raj" <raj.subrahmanian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:09:20 -0400
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Thread-topic: [PATCH] clean up Unisys ES7000 specific code RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]Clean up es7000 specific bootup code
Keir 
>Applied. And you'll see that I was able to strip out even more 
>code, in particular variable es7000_plat just disappeared.
>
>Now I think we could go further, as es7000 now just looks like 
>bigsmp. If we got rid of the es7000 genapic altogether, would 
>your systems always fall back to bigsmp? If not, you might 
>need to add a Unisys OEM check to the DMI checks in 
>arch/x86/genapic/bigsmp.c. But I think that would be a small 
>addition there, and allow you to completely remove all other 
>vestiges of es7000-specific code, making maintenance in future easier.
>
>Could you look into this?
This patch removes the rest of the ES7000 genapic and adds an Unisys OEM
check into bigsmp.c.

Raj

Rajagopalan Subrahmanian
ES7000 Linux Systems Group
Unisys - Systems and Technology

Attachment: es7000bigsmp.patch
Description: es7000bigsmp.patch

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