[PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Ignore smt-enabled on Power8 and later

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Feb 25 01:44:28 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 10:31 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 06:19:20PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ubuntu kernel folks,
> > 
> > This patch isn't quite upstream stable material, but might still be nice to
> > have. It prevents smt-enabled=off on the kernel command line causing a hung
> > system at boot.
> > 
> > cheers
> 
> Michael, could you confirm this is needed for utopic and vivid ?  I have
> filed a bug for this which will be needed for any SRU, LP#1425004.

Yeah, anything that runs on Power8, so I think that is Utopic & Vivid only.

cheers






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