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Revision dfea91d5a7c795fd6f4e1a97489a98e4e767463e authored by Suresh Siddha on 18 January 2010, 20:10:48 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 18 January 2010, 22:15:27 UTC
Chris McDermott from IBM confirmed that hurricane chipset in IBM summit
platforms doesn't support logical flat mode.  Irrespective of the other
things like apic_id's, total number of logical cpu's, Linux kernel
should default to physical mode for this system.

The 32-bit kernel does so using the OEM checks for the IBM summit
platform.  Add a similar OEM platform check for the 64bit kernel too.

Otherwise the linux kernel boot can hang on this platform under certain
bios/platform settings.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris McDermott <lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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x86, apic: use physical mode for IBM summit platforms
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