RE: [LinuxBIOS] LNXI Merge: lnxi-patch-14/16

[Lu, Yinghai]

8111 and 8131 only have 4 bit apic id.

YH

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yhlu  writes:
> at such case We need to enable 8 bit ext apic id mode for Opteron. So

Opteron
> could use 0x10 above.
> and leave 0-0x0f to the device that can not support 8 bit apic id.
>
> I'm considering to align apic id lifting to the way that Norma BIOS

does.

Are io-apics limited to apic ids 0x0-0x0f as well?

My memory says to me the limit should be 0x0-0xff...

Eric