Re: [PATCH] x86: add /proc/cpuinfo/physical id quirks

[Suresh Siddha]

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:20 -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> It turns out I need to rework my patch anyway because I need to
> think about the case where a user disables some cores in the
> BIOS, in which case my (fragile) table selection scheme falls
> apart.

These are the sort of reasons why we want topology detection to be
completely based on what cpuid instruction says and nothing else.

thanks,
suresh

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