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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:51:27 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys smp.h src/sys/kern subr_smp.c src/sys/i386/i386 mp_machdep.c src/sys/alpha/alpha mp_machdep.c 
Message-ID:  <20020310215012.U504-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203102100.g2AL0qm01007@mass.dis.org>

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On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Michael Smith wrote:

> > It should be possible, yes. I'll sort out changing the ia64 platform code
> > accordingly if you really need this information that early.
>
> In the case where the MPtable can't be fetched except via ACPI, no, it's
> not possible.

For finding SAPICs and CPUs, we parse the ACPI tables in our own code in
sys/ia64/acpi/madt.c. We don't need to initialise ACPI before we can do
this so it should be ok.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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