From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APIC support on Slot-A Athlon, K6
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 04:06:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031208120615.GF8039@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031208115859.GA17909@dbz.icequake.net>
At some point in the past, someone wrote:
>> Furthermore, I/O-APIC usage requires (in hardware) that the
>> processor has a local APIC.
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:58:59AM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> What can the APIC support alone accomplish, without an I/O-APIC?
> Just NMI watchdog and related things? (looking at CONFIG_APIC help)
> Looks like I/O-APIC is the real desired feature, but a functioning local
> APIC, though not very useful by itself, is a prerequisite for it.
LVT interrupts are likely still usable in such scenarios.
-- wli
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2003-12-08 11:58 ` APIC support on Slot-A Athlon, K6 Ryan Underwood
2003-12-08 12:06 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-12-08 17:07 Mikael Pettersson
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2003-12-08 10:44 Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-08 8:48 Ryan Underwood
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