Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] stack overflow safe kdump (2.6.16-rc1-i386) - safe_smp_processor_id | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:41:43 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 25 January 2006 08:59, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 08:10, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It assumes that all x86 SMP machines have APICs. That's untrue of > > > Voyager. I think we can probably live with this assumption - others > > > would know better than I. > > > > Early x86s didn't have APICs and they are still often disabled on not so > > old mobile CPUs. I don't think it's a good assumption to make for i386. > > But how many of those do SMP?
The SMP kernel should still run on those. Even x86-64 had special code for this.
-Andi
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