Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:59:36 +0200 (MET DST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 Fix IO_APIC IRQ assignment bug |
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Mika Penttilä wrote:
> Why can't we use the same vector for multiple ioapic entrys? After all, > we are already sharing irqs, and an irq is just a cookie for a vector.
IIRC, there are serious issues with using the same vector for multiple I/O APIC interrupts, at least for certain implementations. So it's probably not even worth investigating.
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