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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]Clean up es7000 specific bootup code

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]Clean up es7000 specific bootup code
From: "Subrahmanian, Raj" <raj.subrahmanian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:21:12 -0400
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I will look into it.
Raj 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:09 AM
>To: Subrahmanian, Raj
>Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]Clean up es7000 specific bootup code 
>
>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?
>
> -- Keir
>
>On 10/7/07 02:47, "Subrahmanian, Raj" 
><raj.subrahmanian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This patch cleans out Unisys es7000 platform specific code. A lot of 
>> the code there was not required since it is for legacy es7000s on 
>> which Xen is not supported.
>> I also removed calls to enable_apic_mode from apic.c since that is 
>> also legacy es7000 specific code.
>> This patch has been tested on a commodity Dell box and an Unisys 
>> es7000 Raj
>> 
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