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SubjectRe: [RFC -tip] x86,apic -- reduce disable_apic usage
[Cyrill Gorcunov - Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 09:12:51PM +0400]
| [Cyrill Gorcunov - Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:59:47PM +0400]
| | [Maciej W. Rozycki - Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:38:52PM +0100]
| | | 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
| | | --
| | |
| |
| | Well, indeed, somehow forgot about this case. Thanks Maciej!
| | The patch should be dropped.
| |
| | -- Cyrill
|
| Hmm... But if we have no MP table parsed and no "lapic" option
| passed we should leave execution in pure PIC mode. Or I miss
| something?
|
| -- Cyrill

To be precise -- for discrete apic we set this bit manually.

-- Cyrill


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