Re: [PATCH] x86,APIC: Detect lapic_is_integrated() once - use onand on.

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Fri May 22 2009 - 16:23:09 EST


[H. Peter Anvin - Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:12:03PM -0700]
| Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| >
| > Hi Rakib,
| >
| > actually this change could be dangerous. I don't
| > remember if I saw mixed configuration at all but
| > I would not be that sure that we will never met it.
| >
| > Peter? Ingo? Yinghai? Maciej?
| >
|
| That seems unlikely in the extreme. To the best of my knowledge, only
| 486s ever used the external APICs.
|
| -hpa
|

It was about a half year ago (need googling to be precise :)
but I was reported about Xeon processor which identify itself
as having "external" apic. So I hardly believe if real external
device with ICC bus were used.

-- Cyrill
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