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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: yhlu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
	Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Morton Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Inclusion of x86_64 memorize ioapic at bootup patch
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:46:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ek3k2ojo.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440601070143v44ee9f4dua2dcef2a536d4c73@mail.gmail.com> (yhlu.kernel@gmail.com's message of "Sat, 7 Jan 2006 01:43:22 -0800")

yhlu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:

> andi,
>
> In LinuxBIOS, we don't set the MPS 0x467 and the AP still can be started by BSP.
>
> are these really needed for x86_64?
>
>         Dprintk("Setting warm reset code and vector.\n");
>
>         CMOS_WRITE(0xa, 0xf);
>         local_flush_tlb();
>         Dprintk("1.\n");
>         *((volatile unsigned short *) phys_to_virt(0x469)) = start_rip >> 4;
>         Dprintk("2.\n");
>         *((volatile unsigned short *) phys_to_virt(0x467)) = start_rip & 0xf;
>         Dprintk("3.\n");
>
> the STARTUP IPI should work well with MPS v1.4

There are very large x86 machines that a reset is sent to the remote
cpu and thus 0x40:0x67 and 0x40:0x67 becomes relevant.

YH you didn't do something foolish and put a linuxbios table below
0x500 did you?

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-07 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-07  1:32 Lu, Yinghai
2006-01-07  2:32 ` yhlu
2006-01-07  6:38   ` yhlu
2006-01-07  7:20     ` yhlu
2006-01-07  9:43       ` yhlu
2006-01-07 12:46         ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-01-07 19:36           ` yhlu
2006-01-07 19:44             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-07 21:35               ` yhlu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-07  0:35 Lu, Yinghai
2006-01-07  1:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-03  4:46 Vivek Goyal
2006-01-06  0:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2006-01-06  0:38   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-06  4:50     ` Vivek Goyal
2006-01-06  8:02     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-06 18:59       ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-06  8:24   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-06 23:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-07  0:00   ` Yinghai Lu
2006-01-07  0:29     ` Eric W. Biederman

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