Re: [PATCH] Fix BIOS CPU enumeration

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Li, Xin B wrote:
> Current BIOS delays 10ms for AP to boot up, but we found it may be too
> short : on some machine 10ms is OK, some other not. And if we look at
> the OS side, Linux waits for 5s for AP to boot up, so I would suggest to
> wait for a much longer time, like 2000ms, is that OK

Two seconds is a bit long.  But now that we have the bios in our source 
repo, we can go wild, and pass the cpu count in the cmos non volatile 
memory or through some port, and make it timing independent.


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