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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:22:56 -0500
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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erich@uruk.org wrote:
> 
> Wow, I didn't think I'd cause this kind of widespread panic ;-)
> 
> Seriously, though...  this isn't a huge show-stopper by any means.  There
> are 2 things necessary to fix working with most P6 systems:
> 
>   --  Changing the local APIC to a variable (right now it is hard-coded),
>         or simply changing the page address it is mapped at to take this
>         into account.
> 
>   --  For many dual-P6 motherboards, support booting off of a CPU local APIC
>         which is != 0.  Many P6 motherboards have the boot CPU as #1, and
>         the secondary CPU as #0.  This might be harder to fix.
> 
> BTW, I'll have a finished "generic" startup sequence available in a few
> days on my web site.  It is similar to but somewhat more generic than the
> Linux-SMP CPU startup code.
> 
> --
>   Erich Stefan Boleyn                 \_ E-mail (preferred):  <erich@uruk.org>
> Mad Genius wanna-be, CyberMuffin        \__      (finger me for other stats)
> Web:  http://www.uruk.org/~erich/     Motto: "I'll live forever or die trying"

Are you planning on providing the fixes to the other problems that you
mentioned as well? ;)

Steve