Hi,

> have you tried omitting the `device lapic` line from the devicetree?
I have tested this, in this case Linux shows only one processor core.
Therefore the 'device lapic' line is really needed...

I can submit that Local APIC Fixup patch to gerrit but I'm not sure if this
is really the best solution.

Kind regards,
Sumo


On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 6:35 PM Nico Huber <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> have you tried omitting the `device lapic` line from the devicetree?
> It would only matter if there is configuration associated with it, but
> I can't see anything like that for `intel/harcuvar`.
>
> What happens is that this `device lapic` line in the devicetree becomes
> an entry in a list at runtime. This list is later filled with the actual
> cores present. If any of the actual cores has the same APIC id as given
> in the devicetree, no additional entry is added for this core. However
> if none of the actual cores has that id, the original entry is left
> blindly in the list, causing coreboot to report the spurious, fifth
> core.
>
> On 07.10.20 21:27, [email protected] wrote:
> > Thank you so much Javier Galindo!
> >
> > Sorry for not finding this case myself ...
> > I checked it on the motherboard with lapic #4 - everything works as it
> should.
> > Tomorrow I'll check it on the motherboard with lapic #0.
> > I wish I could understand how this magic works :)! lapic 0xbeef .....
>
> It's kind of a wildcard that gets replaced with the number found in the
> hardware. Nothing too special but probably unnecessary.
>
> Nico
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