Re: [PATCH] i386-pda: Initialize the PDA early, before any C coderuns.

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Mon Sep 11 2006 - 19:29:33 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
What is likely to happen if the boot CPU is not CPU #0? (iirc Voyager does
that?)

Not sure, but I think this replicates the behaviour of the original code (ie, INIT_THREAD_INFO initializes cpu to 0, so smp_processor_id will return 0). Hm, Voyager will probably need a little patch to update the the PDA cpu_number properly in smp_setup_processor_id().

J
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