Re: APIC version and 8-bit APIC IDs

[Martin Wilck]

yhlu wrote:
> why matrin need to make apic id to be greater than 0x10 when system is
> only 2way?

It's a scalable system where multiple boards may be combined. Anyway, I 
see nothing in the specs that says you must start counting CPUs from zero.

Regards
Martin



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