return 0;
 }
 
+int __init early_acpi_boot_init(void)
+{
+       int ret;
+
+       /*
+        * do a partial walk of MADT to determine how many CPUs
+        * we have including offline CPUs
+        */
+       if (acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_MADT, acpi_parse_madt)) {
+               printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Can't find MADT\n");
+               return 0;
+       }
+
+       ret = acpi_table_parse_madt(ACPI_MADT_TYPE_LOCAL_SAPIC,
+               acpi_parse_lsapic, NR_CPUS);
+       if (ret < 1)
+               printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX
+                      "Error parsing MADT - no LAPIC entries\n");
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
+
+
 int __init acpi_boot_init(void)
 {
 
                printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX
                       "Error parsing LAPIC address override entry\n");
 
-       if (acpi_table_parse_madt(ACPI_MADT_TYPE_LOCAL_SAPIC, acpi_parse_lsapic, NR_CPUS)
-           < 1)
-               printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX
-                      "Error parsing MADT - no LAPIC entries\n");
-
        if (acpi_table_parse_madt(ACPI_MADT_TYPE_LOCAL_APIC_NMI, acpi_parse_lapic_nmi, 0)
            < 0)
                printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Error parsing LAPIC NMI entry\n");
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
        /* Initialize the ACPI boot-time table parser */
        acpi_table_init();
+       early_acpi_boot_init();
 # ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA
        acpi_numa_init();
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU
+       prefill_possible_map();
+#endif
        per_cpu_scan_finalize((cpus_weight(early_cpu_possible_map) == 0 ?
                32 : cpus_weight(early_cpu_possible_map)),
                additional_cpus > 0 ? additional_cpus : 0);
 setup_per_cpu_areas (void)
 {
        /* start_kernel() requires this... */
-#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU
-       prefill_possible_map();
-#endif
 }
 
 /*