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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 10/11] xen/hvmlite: Boot secondary CPUs
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On 01/02/16 15:38, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> HVMlite secondary VCPUs use baremetal bringup path (i.e. native_*
> smp_ops) but need to do some preparation in PV code.

If we always provided an emulated APIC could we use the native SMP
bring-up instead?

David