Re: [patch 00/26] x64, x2apic/intr-remap: Interrupt-remapping andx2apic support

[Arjan van de Ven]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> A lot of your code is generic, and some of it is for just x86_64.  Since the
> cpus are capable of running in 32bit mode.  We really need to implement x86_32
> and x86_64 support in the same code base.  Which I believe means factoring out
> pieces of io_apic_N.c into things such as msi.c that can be shared between the
> two architectures.

in general the purpose of this is to support 256 and more logical threads....
.... not going to happen on 32 bit

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