Re: cpuid_t typedef? (was Re: Processor cores not properly

On 29 May 2014 13:18, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> anyway. Besides all of this - I'm thinking of just introducing:
>>
>> typedef uint32_t cpuid_t;
>>
>> .. then once we've converted all the users, we can make NOCPU
>> something other than 255 (which is the other limiting factor here..)
>>
>> Any objections?
>
> This one is a bit harder as you'll have to do shims for kinfo_proc, but
> I think this is fine.  You could also just use u_int, but a new foo_t
> isn't that bad I guess.

I don't think I'd modify any userland-facing ABI/KBI's just yet. I'm
just worried that 11.0-REL will come out before we have made a decent
inroads into this and we _can't_ support > 254 CPUs.

-a
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