[PATCH 2/2] [Maverick] UBUNTU: [Config] Enable CONFIG_X86_X2APIC

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Wed Jun 23 14:59:00 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 07:14 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 06:54 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> > The x2APIC architecture provides a new x2apic mode, which allows for the
> > increased range of processor addressability (>  8 bit apic ID support),
> > MSR access to APIC registers, etc. The x2apic specification can be found
> > at:
> >
> > http://download.intel.com/design/processor/specupdt/318148.pdf

Hrm, try the following instead:

http://developer.intel.com/Assets/PDF/manual/318148.pdf

Leann

> > It's been requested (I've CC'd Yinying) that we enable the
> > CONFIG_X86_X2APIC option in Maverick:
> >
> > BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597091
> >
> > config X86_X2APIC
> >          bool "Support x2apic"
> >          depends on X86_LOCAL_APIC&&  X86_64&&  INTR_REMAP
> >          ---help---
> >            This enables x2apic support on CPUs that have this feature.
> >
> >            This allows 32-bit apic IDs (so it can support very large systems),
> >            and accesses the local apic via MSRs not via mmio.
> >
> >            If you don't know what to do here, say N.
> > =====
> >
> 
> The URL you've noted does not seem to be valid.
> 
> rtg






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