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

From: Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linuxpower.ca)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 02:50:02 EST

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On Mon, 12 May 2003, STK wrote:

>
> For me the linux kernel should invoke the _PIC method with the right
> parameter.
>

Jos, if you switch to IOAPIC mode after failing you're going to have to
reprogram the IOAPIC again as specified in the mptables, setup_IOAPIC_irqs
does this. As well as do some other setup which ACPI let you get
past in arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c. In a nutshell it'll get very convoluted
quickly.

Zwane

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