Re: APIC version and 8-bit APIC IDs

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Martin Wilck wrote:

> 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.

 Well, Intel's "Multiprocessor Specification" mandates that (see section 
3.6.1 and also the compliance list in Appendix C).  I does not mandate 
local APIC IDs to be consecutive though.

  Maciej
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