[coreboot] Re: Atomic Accesses to Local APIC

[Kyösti Mälkki]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 8:12 PM Julian Stecklina
 wrote:
> The X86_GOOD_APIC was set in the past in a few configs. You can find them via:
>
> git log -S GOOD_APIC --source --all
>
> The define itself was finally removed in:
>
> commit fc57d6c4c2848726be1361f6dee3c33e7551b857
> Author: Patrick Rudolph 
> Date:   Tue Nov 12 16:30:14 2019 +0100
> cpu/x86/lapic: Support x86_64 and clean up code
>
> From then on all APICs were "bad".
>
> But it looks like the workaround was just carried forward with no discussion of
> whether it's still necessary or what it actually works around.

Hi

Removal has been suggested with the X2APIC work:

https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/55199

Regards,
Kyösti