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From: "Sebastian Herbszt" <herbszt@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: bios: Put AP boot up code to 0x1000
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:15:11 +0200
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Yang, Sheng wrote:

> Rather than 0x10000, which can be overrided by userspace program like 
> grub.

Could you please explain this problem?
If i don't misunderstand this smp_ap_boot_code_start from rombios32start.S
gets copied to AP_BOOT_CODE and then there is a broadcast INIT and SIPI.
After the code is run it's not used anymore so there should be no need to care
where it's located.

- Sebastian