Re: [PATCH v4] x86, vt-d: enable x2apic opt out
From: Ingo Molnar
Date:  Wed May 25 2011 - 16:59:00 EST
* Youquan Song <youquan.song@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> New version of VT-d2 specification 
> (http://download.intel.com/technology 
> /computing/vptech/Intel(r)_VT_for_Direct_IO.pdf) includes a new 
> feature that provide firmware a way to request system software to 
> opt out of enable x2APIC mode. DMAR ACPI table newly define flags.1 
> bit: x2APIC_OPT_OUT which is set to request System software opt out 
> xAPIC mode if flags.0 bit:INTR_REMAP is also set.
So why isnt the x2apic disabled in the CPUID? That's the canonical 
way to unsupport a particular non-working CPU hw feature.
Thanks,
	Ingo
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