Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

Ingo Molnar
2005-07-16T19:33:55Z

* Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de> wrote:

> This is it. Apply it on top of -51-30 and 'make oldconfig'. You'll be
> asked about the new CONFIG_ONE_IOAPIC. Answering yes, io_apic_one.c
> will be used, which is ((io_apic.c minus quirks) minus
> multi_io_apic_capability) . It'll propably crash some machines, as the
> quirks are there for some reason... With CONFIG_ONE_IOAPIC unset,
> you'll get the same kernel as with my previously sent patch. have fun
> :-)

this could only be offered if it's merged into the existing io_apic.c.
The current IOAPIC_FAST option will go away eventually, but ONE_IOAPIC
would/could be intentionally incompatible.

Ingo