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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: YhLu <YhLu@tyan.com>
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Subject: Re: 256 apic id for amd64
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:48:40AM -0800, YhLu wrote:
> James,
> 
> I'm working on add amd dual core LinuxBIOS support to our MB. So I can
> change the apic id as I want.
> 
> When I lift the apic id for CPUS, if the bsp apicid is changed to 0x10, the
> jiffies is not changing, So I have to leave to set BSP using apic id 0 in
> LinuxBIOS. And lifting others to use 0x11.....

You should not need that.

> According to Andi, that would be one bug in kernel .....

No, after some consideration it's not a bug.

-Andi