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Subject: Re: Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 15:00 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > I might add that the intel SAPIC functions
> > in roughly the same manner, so this might break more than just voyager.
> 
> Are you referring to the IA64 SAPIC here, or something else?  The only 
> mention of SAPIC in the x86 tree appear to be naming of fields in ACPI 
> tables.

Yes, that's the one ... but I believe a class of the xAPICs also used a
similar principle.

James