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SubjectRe: [patch] enabling APIC and NMI watchdog on UP systems
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> the attached patch (against test9-pre7) is a cleaned up version Keir
> Fraser's APIC-on-UP patch, and adds the enabling code of Keith Owens which
> programs P6 performance counter 0 as an NMI. (i simplified the code alot -
> there is no problem at all with getting NMIs from two sources, and it's
> not necessary to make it configurable.)

I don't like your changes to connect_bsp_APIC() and the semantics of
pic_mode. As the PIC mode is only meaningful for i82489DX configurations,
it is irrelevant to integrated APIC implementations which your patch
addresses. Please leave the i82489DX path unchanged -- it's too fragile.

Maciej

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