On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 02:31, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > When coming out of apic mode attempt to set the appropriate > apic back into virtual wire mode. This improves on previous versions > of this patch by by never setting bot the local apic and the ioapic > into veritual wire mode. > > This code looks at data from the mptable to see if an ioapic has > an ExtInt input to make this decision. A future improvement > is to figure out which apic or ioapic was in virtual wire mode > at boot time and to remember it. That is potentially a more accurate > method, of selecting which apic to place in virutal wire mode. >
The call to find_isa_irq_pin() will always fail on ACPI-enabled systems, so this patch is a NO-OP unless the system is booted in MPS mode. Do we really want to be adding this complexity for obsolete systems? Are there systems that fail without this patch? -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
