Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] x86: use dmi check to treat disabled cpus ashotplug cpus.

[Suresh Siddha]

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:13 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> ok let stay with option 1.
>
> and would like to use DMI to blacklist those systems that do need treat disabled
> cpus MADT as hotplug cpus.

Yinghai, I don't think we have to worry about disabled cpu's etc using
DMI etc. If we really come across such a system, they can use ACPI FADT
flags (ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL) to specify that they need to use
physical mode.

thanks,
suresh

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