Re: port-amd64/38478: panic on boot when attaching cpu17

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/38478; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-amd64/38478: panic on boot when attaching cpu17
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:00:55 +0100

 On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:30:00PM +0000, Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost 
wrote:
 
 > cpu17 at mainbus0 apid 34
 > panic: cpu at apic id 34 already attached?
 
 The code does not handle APIC IDs > 31 yet. Perhaps we should look at
 modifying usr/include/bitstring.h to work on 32 bit quantities, and to
 do atomic operaitons. As a start I think we should stop using the APIC
 ID to identify CPUs for pure software operations.
 
 Andrew