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On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 12:14:43PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Th eone system I had myself was a Sony PCG-CR1. I don't have any pointers > to the discussion, it was in the late 2.3.x tree if I remember correctly. tnx - I'll look for that. > Unlikely. The IO-APIC on x86 is in that region, but it doesn't respond > from external sources, it's not actually on the PCI bus and only visible > from the CPU. And the CPU decodes that address internally and sends it on > the APIC bus and thus PCI devices simply do not matter for it. xAPIC != APIC xAPIC ~= SAPIC AFAICT, My x86 system uses an IO-xAPIC which programmed exactly like the IO-SAPIC on IA64. i wrote the parisc IO-SAPIC support. I haven't tried to reproduce the problem seen with IA64 on this box and it's possible I just can't. > There's no point in you arguing about this. The problem exists and is real > on x86. The patch posted IS NOT GOING IN. That's final, and there's just > no point to arguing about it. I agree - it shouldn't. > Alternative methods anyone? I'll work one out with Ivan K - he usually has good ideas. thanks, grant - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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