On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:21:15AM -0500, Protasevich, Natalie wrote:
> > > Looks like the need in the unique id can only be keyed of the local
> > > APIC id, and probably it is a good idea to keep the NO_IOAPIC_CHECK
> > > for subarchs that can override the heuristics?
> >
> > I prefer not to do that. How about a simple
> >
> > if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL &&
> > boot_cpu_data.x86 < 15)
> > /* do uniqueness check */
> > else
> > /* don't do it */
> >
> > ?
> >
> > Rationale is that P4s and newer and systems not from Intel
> > don't have serial APIC busses and don't need this uniqueness check.
> >
>
> Yes, indeed this looks like the only undisputed (and sufficient)
> criteria. I tried the below with Xeon box and it worked fine:
>
> --- mpparse.c.orig 2005-05-11 02:10:35.000000000 -0400
> +++ mpparse.c 2005-05-11 02:12:31.000000000 -0400
> @@ -912,7 +913,15 @@ void __init mp_register_ioapic (
> mp_ioapics[idx].mpc_apicaddr = address;
>
> set_fixmap_nocache(FIX_IO_APIC_BASE_0 + idx, address);
> - mp_ioapics[idx].mpc_apicid = io_apic_get_unique_id(idx, id);
> + if ((boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) &&
> (boot_cpu_data.x86 >= 15))
> + mp_ioapics[idx].mpc_apicid = id;
> + else
That's still wrong because it does not trigger on AMD systems. Please make it
if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL && boot_cpu_data.x86 < 15)
mp_ioapics[idx].mpc_apicid = io_apic_get_unique_id(idx,id);
else
mp_ioapics[idx].mpc_apicid = id;
-Andi
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