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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:17:48 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: setup_ioapic_ids_from_mpc()
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> Use NUMA-Q specific MP OEM tables to program the physical APIC ID's of
> the IO-APIC's. This fixes boot-time panic()'s on NUMA-Q's in the stock
> version of setup_ioapic_ids_from_mpc().

I think you can just skip this whole routine altogether on NUMA-Q,
it's all pre-programmed for us by firmware. Much smaller patch ;-)

M.