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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > You are unfortunately mistaken -- the spec is explicit about *local* APIC > IDs having to start at 0. There are at least two places in the spec that > refer to that. I see. Thanks for the clarification. > You can always assign 0, 16, 17, etc. to local APICs and then 1, 2, 3, > etc. for I/O APICs. Actually, that's what we did (I messed thinks up in my posting). I think that's an ugly configuration, though, and totally misleading in terms of system topology. > Frankly I don't know what the actual justification > behind the requirement is. Note that the ID of 0 need not necessarily > belong to the BSP. Starting both local APICs and IO-APICs at 0 isa working and aesthetically pleasing solution. We're pursuing that now. Thanks again, Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck@Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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