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On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:39 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > i rerolled the atom cd today with some noticable changes > for mp systems. > > 1. apic handling has changed. the mp code can now handle > apic ids > 7. this can affect machines with fewer than 8 cores, > especially intel 2xxx-series and xeon 56xx-series processors. > > 2. the apic code has a hack to find intel ht processors, even > when there is no mp table entry. (as per usual.) you might > see twice as many cores. > > 3. msi interrupts are now the default. see apic(3). > http://www.quanstro.net/magic/man2html/3/apic > > this has been tested on a variety of phenom ii, opteron c32, intel 5[56]xx. > intel core i7, intel atom, and pentium iv systems from 2-24 cores. > but i'd be interested in hearing of any success/failure. > > - erik >
