Re: 256 apic id for amd64

[Andi Kleen]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:37:50AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:12:00 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:14:24PM -0800, YhLu wrote:
> >> After keep the bsp using 0, the jiffies works well. Werid?
> >
> >Probably a bug somewhere.  But since BSP should be always 
> >0 I'm not sure it is worth tracking down.
> 
> I hope by "0" you're referring to a Linux kernel defined
> software value and _not_ what the HW or BIOS conjured up!

No, I'm refering to the APIC ID configured by the BIOS. 

> Never trust a BIOS to DTRT.

I won't complicate the x86-64 code to work around non existant
theoretical BIOS issues.

-Andi
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