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

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Feb 26 02:51:16 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 12:36 -0800, Brad Figg wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:31:42AM +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.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Utopic has carried this commit since 3.16.0-30.40

Ah sorry, I didn't think to check.

cheers






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