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On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:00:55AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> ok, then next question is how early it should be.
> 
> before early_cpu_init/early_identify_cpu
> 
> or just before check_bugs/identify_cpu

Read the code. It's in x86_64_start_kernel on 64-bit.

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