Re: [RFC] x86: Cleanup prose of Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt

From: Nick Andrew
Date: Sun Apr 13 2008 - 07:25:43 EST


On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:45:36AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Nick Andrew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > echo -n pirq=; echo $( scanpci | grep T_L | cut -c56- ) | sed 's/ /,/g'
> >
> > Inside the backtics, instead of scanpci, I could do:
> >
> > lspci -v | grep IRQ | sed -e 's/.* IRQ \(\w\+\)/\1/'
> >
> > Is this an acceptable substitution?
>
> yeah, i guess so.
>
> Btw., that's rather arcane text - do people still have to use pirq= boot
> lines to get their boxes to boot?

I wouldn't know that, but I still have to use 'noapic' to get my AMD box
to boot :-(

Nick.
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