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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:08:37 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: finding out the boot cpu number from userspace
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:16:35PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> assuming cpu 0 is the boot cpu sounds fragile/incorrect, but for
> irqbalanced I'd like to find out which cpu is the boot cpu, is there
> a good way of doing so ?

cpu numbers are logical not physical, so can't we assume cpu-0 is
*always* the boot cpu?