Re: [PATCH] x86: do_boot_cpu - add check if we have ESR register

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Mon Sep 22 2008 - 06:04:40 EST


[Yinghai Lu - Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 02:57:17AM -0700]
| >
| > Actually it's resend of the patch. On previous attempt
| > Yinghai was proposed to choose:
| >
| >> one apic_version or boot_cpu_apic_version could be enough
| >
| > but I think it should be different patch which does cleaning
| > up variables usage. So for now I think _this_ patch is enough
| > since idea is to prevent of touching nonexistant register rather
| > code cleaning (whci could be done later).
|
| do we have systems that have mixed cpu supported with different apic version?
|
| YH
|

I don't think it's possible on a single motherboard. For integrated
apics it will require different families of cpu.

- Cyrill -
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