On 2023-08-07, Garrett Wollman <woll...@bimajority.org> wrote: > This option was apparently added in 2016 by jhb@, and in his > PHabricator description, he wrote: > > As a transition aid, the new behavior is moved under a new > kernel option (EARLY_AP_STARTUP). This will allow the option > to be turned off if need be during initial testing. I hope to > enable this on x86 by default in a followup commit and to have > all platforms moved over before 11.0. Once the transition is > complete, the option will be removed along with the > !EARLY_AP_STARTUP code. >
I remember reading that stance, so probably I ran into this one also once. It seems, we, who are building our own custom kernels, are becoming a minority. :(
