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Subject: Re: patch for topology detection of Intel CPUs
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on 06/09/2010 15:23 Jeremy Chadwick said the following:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:17:42PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 29/08/2010 12:25 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>> The below patch is against sources in FreeBSD tree, it should be applied
>>> either to sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c or sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c depending
>>> on the desired architecture:
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/intel-cpu-topo.diff
>>
>> I see that I am not getting as many testers as I expected, so I am going to commit
>> the patch.
>>
>> You still have a short while to either objectively object to the patch or to
>> voluntary test it :-)
> 
> I would gladly assist in testing this, except there doesn't appear to be
> an authoritative statement that it will apply to RELENG_8; when I see
> WIP, I assume -CURRENT/HEAD only.

patch -C is much better than any statement :)

> Let me know, since all the systems I have are Intel multi-core.

Yes, the patch should be applicable to stable/8 without any issues.

-- 
Andriy Gapon