Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:11:14 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] x86, apic: Disable BSP if boot cpu is AP |
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On 03/10/2013 07:13 PM, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote: > > It seems to me that at least there needs to be the following design > policy for multiple CPUs on the 2nd kenrel: > > - There's no firmware, kernel components and modules that depend on > BSP flag being kept set on the original BSP flag and never set BSP > flag of any of the existing CPUs again at runtime. >
And that is provably false in the case of firmware.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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