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From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>,
	Rijndael Cosque <rijcos@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's the status of x2APIC support in Linux kernel?
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:08:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080201180822.GA376@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73fxwc50s5.fsf@bingen.suse.de>

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 01:17:14PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Jike Song" <albcamus@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 2/1/08, Rijndael Cosque <rijcos@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I found the x2APIC spec via http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/.
> >>
> >> Looks at present there is no x2APIC support in Linux kernel 2.6.24?
> >>
> >> Is there any experimental patch available for Linux kernel? -- I
> >> googled "x2APIC Linux";  looks no patch for now?
> 
> There are right no CPUs shipping which implement x2apic.

That's correct. None of the released CPU's support it.

I am working on a patch enabling these future x2apic extensions and the plan 
is to post this kernel patch shortly.

thanks,
suresh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-01  8:43 What's the status of x2APIC support in Linux kernel? Rijndael Cosque
2008-02-01  8:53 ` Jike Song
2008-02-01 12:17   ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 18:08     ` Siddha, Suresh B [this message]
2008-02-14 19:06       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-14 21:48         ` Siddha, Suresh B
2008-02-02  2:55     ` Jike Song
2008-02-02  4:43       ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-02 17:43         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-01  9:46 ` Peter Zijlstra

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