Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1

[Alan Cox]

> > MP table regardless of the capabilities of the CPU installed. Its apparently
> > legal to do so. There is an apic capability flag that should be tested before
>  It's not legal -- the MPS is very explicit the MP-table must reflect a
> real configuration. 

Intel tell me otherwise. The real world also disagrees which makes the
discussion a little pointless. We have to handle the real situation where
this occurs

> > making any assumptions about APIC availability on a processor.
> 
>  OK, but how does it handle the 82489DX?  There are valid configurations
> using this kind of APIC, including Pentium P54C ones...

These processors don't report the APIC on the cpuid ? If so then I guess
the fix is something like this

	if( cpuid says there is no local apic && vendor != intel)

Intel stuff appears to always be happy poking in APIC space. I don't know
if this is related to the chip internals on the non APIC capable chips.

Alan