[PATCH v1 2/2] x86, apic: Disable BSP if boot cpu is AP
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Mar 11 00:11:14 EDT 2013
On 03/10/2013 07:13 PM, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
>
> It seems to me that at least there needs to be the following design
> policy for multiple CPUs on the 2nd kenrel:
>
> - There's no firmware, kernel components and modules that depend on
> BSP flag being kept set on the original BSP flag and never set BSP
> flag of any of the existing CPUs again at runtime.
>
And that is provably false in the case of firmware.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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