[LinuxBIOS] APICID lifting

Stefan Reinauer stepan at openbios.org
Wed Oct 26 19:04:33 CEST 2005


* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [051026 18:52]:
> The best way is to get buggy software fixed.  So lifting the apic
> id on the boot cpu will help find those bugs sooner, so they get
> fixed.  
 
While this is philosophically true, it sounds like those "well, works
with fuctory bios, so linuxbios is broken" kind of thing.

Especially since having the boot cpu on apic id 0 is not particularly
wrong.

  Stefan




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