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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:41:54 +0100 (BST)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC -tip] x86,apic - set cpu_has_apic for discrete apic
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> In case of discrete apic (due to hardware or firmware reason)
> cpuid may not retrieve cpu_has_apic bit. So for SMP
> compiled kernels instead of long check we may set "fake"
> cpu_has_apic bit and check only the bit in further code
> flow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
> ---
> 
> Please review carefully.

 Sure: how did you test it or plan to do so?

  Maciej