Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64: move apic init in init_IRQs | Date | Tue, 4 Oct 2005 17:24:36 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 04 October 2005 17:13, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > All kinds of ugliness exists because we don't initialize > the apics during init_IRQs. > - We calibrate jiffies in non apic mode even when we are using apics. > - We have to have special code to initialize the apics when non-smp. > - The legacy i8259 must exist and be setup correctly, even > we won't use it past initialization.
Actually some setups use its timer even in ACPI mode. Do you take this into account?
In theory it looks reasonable, but I guess it won't work without the bogus watchdog change. That would need to be resolved first.
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