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SubjectRe: [PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> I would personally prefer to export the global flags separately from the
> per-CPU flags. Not only is it more correct, it would help catch these
> kinds of bugs!!!

That's what I am going to do. Basically to recode cpu_has_* macros to
use global flags as that's the intuitive name and use a set of different
names for the SMP bootstrap code to access boot_cpu_data (possibly
boot_has_* or boot_cpu_has_*).

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