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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:51:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
To:        davids@webmaster.com, eagle@phc.igs.net
Cc:        green@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@watermarkgroup.com, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Testers please!
Message-ID:  <199909221451.KAA05897@lor.watermarkgroup.com>

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> since the spec requires the ap kick the bp's alive, they won't come out of reset 
> at the same time. the bp sits and waits, for the ap, to tell it to come alive.
> 
> Rob
> 
First, I think you ap->BSP, bp->AP. Second, the spec says, the APs sit and
wait for SIPI in a halted state after losing out BIPI. The spec also says,
TSC is incremented even after the processor is halted by the HLT instruction,
which I believe is the same "halted" state.

-lq


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