Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/4] move CPUID_APIC flag to where it belongs

[Glauber Costa]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:29:23PM +0300, Stanislav wrote:
> If OS boot fine its more luck. The flag indicates presence of local apic,
> not "if it is supported".
> For example when lapic is globally disabled (i.e. not present) CPUID flag is
> cleared off as well.
> But CPU is still supports lapic, after reset it will be back.
What if we take out a cpu that supports lapic, and is connected to an apic 
system,
and connects it to a board that has no apic?

Also, note that in the old code, it was set regardless of the existance of an 
APIC
anyway. The only dependancy was on smp_cpus > 1.