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SubjectRe: SMP speed on 6x86 UP
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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