Messages in this thread | | | Date | 8 Jan 2005 16:46:00 +0100 | Date | Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:46:00 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 256 apic id for amd64 |
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:37:50AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:12:00 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:14:24PM -0800, YhLu wrote: > >> After keep the bsp using 0, the jiffies works well. Werid? > > > >Probably a bug somewhere. But since BSP should be always > >0 I'm not sure it is worth tracking down. > > I hope by "0" you're referring to a Linux kernel defined > software value and _not_ what the HW or BIOS conjured up!
No, I'm refering to the APIC ID configured by the BIOS.
> Never trust a BIOS to DTRT.
I won't complicate the x86-64 code to work around non existant theoretical BIOS issues.
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