Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:04:19 -0600 (CST) | From | Phil Brutsche <> | Subject | Re: SMP speed on 6x86 UP |
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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I remember, that cyrix and AMD agreed on an own multiprocessor similar to > > APIC: Open-PIC. However, there've never been boards supporting that, AFAIK. > > May the SMP code misinterprets something here ? > > The ix86 kernel code knows nothing about OpenPIC. There is no point. Wouldn't it be better to not try to activate IO-APIC if there are no Intel chips in the system? Or to check to see if IO-APIC is available only if there are Intel chips in the system?
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