static void __init MP_processor_info (struct mpc_config_processor *m)
 {
        int ver;
+       static int found_bsp=0;
 
        if (!(m->mpc_cpuflag & CPU_ENABLED))
                return;
                        " Processor ignored.\n", NR_CPUS);
                return;
        }
-       if (num_processors >= maxcpus) {
-               printk(KERN_WARNING "WARNING: maxcpus limit of %i reached."
-                       " Processor ignored.\n", maxcpus);
-               return;
-       }
 
        num_processors++;
 
                ver = 0x10;
        }
        apic_version[m->mpc_apicid] = ver;
-       bios_cpu_apicid[num_processors - 1] = m->mpc_apicid;
+       if (m->mpc_cpuflag & CPU_BOOTPROCESSOR) {
+               /*
+                * bios_cpu_apicid is required to have processors listed
+                * in same order as logical cpu numbers. Hence the first
+                * entry is BSP, and so on.
+                */
+               bios_cpu_apicid[0] = m->mpc_apicid;
+               x86_cpu_to_apicid[0] = m->mpc_apicid;
+               found_bsp = 1;
+       } else {
+               bios_cpu_apicid[num_processors - found_bsp] = m->mpc_apicid;
+               x86_cpu_to_apicid[num_processors - found_bsp] = m->mpc_apicid;
+       }
 }
 
 static void __init MP_bus_info (struct mpc_config_bus *m)
 
                printk("failed fork for CPU %d\n", cpu);
                return PTR_ERR(idle);
        }
-       x86_cpu_to_apicid[cpu] = apicid;
 
        cpu_pda[cpu].pcurrent = idle;
 
                      GET_APIC_ID(apic_read(APIC_ID)), boot_cpu_id);
                /* Or can we switch back to PIC here? */
        }
-       x86_cpu_to_apicid[0] = boot_cpu_id;
 
        /*
         * Now start the IO-APICs