Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:10:27 +0100 (BST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: APIC version and 8-bit APIC IDs |
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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Martin Wilck wrote:
> It's a scalable system where multiple boards may be combined. Anyway, I see > nothing in the specs that says you must start counting CPUs from zero.
Well, Intel's "Multiprocessor Specification" mandates that (see section 3.6.1 and also the compliance list in Appendix C). I does not mandate local APIC IDs to be consecutive though.
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