Re: [PATCH v3 08/15] MIPS: IP27: remove KV_MAGIC

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 06:39:10AM +0100, Cye Borg wrote:
> Just asking:
> This code in SGI seems to help bring online other CPUs.
> - Does it use the firmware to do it?
> - Is there a possibility that the magic number in this case is used by the
> firmware?
> - If yes: do we break multiprocessing on SGI if we delete this "useless
> relic", which is not referenced in the linux code elsewhere?

this magic is just for a internal struct not used by firmware. It came
from IRIX code, but there is no point in keeping it

Thomas.

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