Re: [RFC] How to fix MPS 1.4 + ACPI behaviour ?

From: Jos Hulzink (josh@stack.nl)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 15:50:32 EST


On Monday 12 May 2003 22:40, STK wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If no Multiple APIC Description Table (MADT) is described, in this case
> the _PIC method can be used to tell the bios to return the right table
> (PIC or APIC routing table).
>
> In this case, if the MPS table describes matches the ACPI APIC table
> (this is the case, because the ACPI APIC table is built from the MPS
> table), you do not need to remap all IRQs.

So, it's more or less a bug in the ACPI code that should do some things when
no MADT is dectected ? Or do I understand you wrong ?

Jos
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