linux-kernel - Re: <PING> Re: [patch x86/core] x86: allow number of additional hotplug CPUs to be set at compile time

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Message-ID: <48E9261A.9060501@firstfloor.org>
Date:	Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:39:54 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: <PING> Re: [patch x86/core] x86: allow number of additional hotplug
 CPUs to be set at compile time


> 
> Please lets get rid of all this.

The result is that there's no way to override a BIOS now that
doesn't declare the number of hotplug CPUs with the Linux hotplug
extension.

Completely trusting the BIOS seems like a bad idea.

So I think you still need the command line parameter back, otherwise there's no
way to override the BIOS.

-Andi (who wished you guys would check with the original author
before removing code you clearly don't understand)

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