Re: EARLY_AP_STARTUP now (effectively) mandatory?

On 2023-08-07, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:

> This option was apparently added in 2016 by jhb@, and in his
> PHabricator description, he wrote:
>
> 	As a transition aid, the new behavior is moved under a new
> 	kernel option (EARLY_AP_STARTUP). This will allow the option
> 	to be turned off if need be during initial testing. I hope to
> 	enable this on x86 by default in a followup commit and to have
> 	all platforms moved over before 11.0. Once the transition is
> 	complete, the option will be removed along with the
> 	!EARLY_AP_STARTUP code.
>

I remember reading that stance, so probably I ran into this one also
once.

It seems, we, who are building our own custom kernels, are becoming
a minority. :(