Dubious MIPS kernel SMP Structures

["Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>]

In arch/mips/kerenl/smp.c, there are two tables defined, __cpu_number_map[]
and __cpu_logical_map[], which would appear to provide forward and backward
mapping between a set of unique but arbitrary CPU numbers and a monotonically
increasing number 0..n of indices into per-CPU data.   As near as I can tell, 
the
only use of this is in the sb1250 code for setting up interrupt hardware.  Is 
there
a reason why it's defined at the mips/kernel level, and not down in the SiByte
platform subtree?  Is there a generic, architectural definition of how these 
mappings
should and should not be set up and used?

            Regards,

            Kevin K.