[SeaBIOS] [PATCH RFC 0/2] support booting more than 255 CPUs with QEMU

Igor Mammedov imammedo at redhat.com
Mon May 9 11:43:52 CEST 2016


According to SDM, if CPUs have APIC ID more than 254
firmware should pass control to OS in x2APIC mode.
This series adds x2APIC bootstrap initialization.

QEMU side of x2APIC support:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg01094.html

Igor Mammedov (2):
  paravirt: disable MPTable in case of more than 255 CPUs
  support booting with more than 255 CPUs

 src/fw/mptable.c |  4 ++++
 src/fw/smp.c     | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 src/x86.h        |  1 +
 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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1.8.3.1




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