[PATCH v1 2/2] x86, apic: Disable BSP if boot cpu is AP

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Oct 22 20:35:47 EDT 2012


On 10/22/2012 02:29 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> As I said, I thought Fenghua tried that but it didn't work, experimentally.
>
> Fair enough.  You described the problem with clearing bit 8 in a weird
> way.
>
> If the best we can muster are fuzzy memories it may be worth revisiting.
> Perhaps it works on enough cpu models to be interesting.
>

It isn't fuzzy memories... this was done as late as 1-2 months ago.  I 
just don't know the details.

Fenghua, could you help fill us in?

	-hpa


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