Can somebody clue me into why this concept
is something other than totally insane?
for system that have 6 pcie slots and more, with full populated cards.
when boot with mptable, BIOS will use irq < 16 for all pci devices,
and several devices will share same irq.
but when acpi is enabled, irqs are spanned all over.
also when pci card with several pci bridges is plugged in, the mptable
is totally messed up, some slot will work, and some doesn't work.