Re: [PATCH 1/5] stack overflow safe kdump (2.6.16-rc1-i386) - safe_smp_processor_id

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 25 January 2006 08:10, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > It assumes that all x86 SMP machines have APICs.  That's untrue of Voyager.
> > I think we can probably live with this assumption - others would know
> > better than I.
> 
> Early x86s didn't have APICs and they are still often disabled on not so 
> old mobile CPUs.  I don't think it's a good assumption to make for i386.
> 

But how many of those do SMP?
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