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DateTue, 22 Apr 2003 16:59:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From"Maciej W. Rozycki" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.68 Fix IO_APIC IRQ assignment bug
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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