Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86, apic: Map the local apic when parsing the MP table.

H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-07T01:22:23Z

On 08/06/2010 06:08 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure the above is decipherable. Please provide an incremental
>> patch with a more detailed description.
>
> YH was saying I overoptimized, and it looks like he is right,
> although there are only one or two machines in existence that
> are likely to be affected.
>
> Untested patch to remove the cleverness below. It it boots all
> is well.
>

This makes sense to me. Yinghai, do you have a system that is actually
affected, and if so, could you test this patch?

-hpa

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