linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86, xsave: some code cleanups and reworks

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:05:11 -0700
From:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86, xsave: some code cleanups and reworks

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 12:46 -0700, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 20.07.10 15:27:17, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 08:50:47PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch series contains some cleanups and reworks I made during
> > > code review and feature implementation for upcoming cpus.
> > > 
> > > Most patches refactor the xsave initialization that is very dependent
> > > on fpu initialization. This series starts to decouple this a little
> > > bit as xsave not only supports fpu features. Also this is an attempt
> > > to ease the xsave interface by making some of the functions and
> > > variables static.
> > > 
> > > There is also one patch that removes boot_cpu_id variable, which is
> > > not really related to xsave. Maybe this should be applied to another
> > > branch.
> > > 
> > > The patches are relative to today's tip/x86/xsave branch.
> > > 
> > > (The patches are small for better review and rebasing.)
> > > 
> > > -Robert
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Robert, I recall there was a thread related to boot_cpu_id and
> > cpu = 0. Unfortunately I can't find it neither in my mbox nor somewhere
> > in net at moment.
> 
> I found this patch:
> 
>  b3572e3 x86/voyager: fix compile breakage caused by dc1e35c6e95e8923cf1d3510438b63c600fee1e2
> 
> indicating that boot cpu id could be different than 0.
> 
> But either this is broken again, or the issue is gone in a different
> way.

Voyager code was removed from the tree since then.

thanks
suresh

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