Subject: Re: CPU numbering question
To: Peter Eisch <peter@boku.net>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/01/2004 20:33:13
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:10:13PM -0600, Peter Eisch wrote:
> 
> Why do the cpus get numbered: 0 1 2 4 ?

Those are the APIDs, 0 is always the boot processor, all others get assigned
application processor ids by the bios. Thes are just arbitrary numbers,
basically. They have no corelation to the cpu0 ... cpuN numbers that
we use to count cpu instances in configuration attach order.

Martin