linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] v4 x86/mrst: add cpu type detection

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Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 02:23:35 -0700
From:	jacob pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alek Du <alek.du@...el.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] v4 x86/mrst: add cpu type detection


>  Aside of that wouldn't it make more sense to do the chip
>  identification only once from mrst_init() and cache the result and
>  change mrst_identify_cpu()
>
the problem is again the ordering of cpuid, boot_cpu_data is not available
by the time we call  x86_mrst_early_setup(). I can move it to mrst_time_init()
but not very ideal. Unless we go back to do cpuid directly in the v1 patch :).
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