Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:38:52 +0100 (BST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC -tip] x86,apic -- reduce disable_apic usage |
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On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Here is an attempt to bring more consistency for apic > presence check. I hope I covered all the code flows. > Though it's RFC. Please review and test if possible. > > -- Cyrill > --- > Instead of messing with (cpu_has_apic|disable_apic) > to check if we have apic functional, better to distinguish > them by logical kind. cpu_has_apic -- to check if we may > use apic functionality, disable_apic -- to note that > apic was disabled via command line.
How do you set cpu_has_apic for systems with discrete local APICs? The CPUID flag is not set in this case.
Maciej
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