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* UP IO-APIC with ACPI table but no MP table?
@ 2002-04-02 11:42 Mikael Pettersson
  2002-04-02 12:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mikael Pettersson @ 2002-04-02 11:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Is it possible to get the kernel to recognise and utilise the
chipset's IO-APIC if the BIOS has no MP table but does list the
IO-APIC in the ACPI table(s)?

If it's possible, is it also meaningful to do this on UP?

/Mikael

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* Re: UP IO-APIC with ACPI table but no MP table?
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@ 2002-04-02 11:57 ` Andi Kleen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andi Kleen @ 2002-04-02 11:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mikael Pettersson; +Cc: linux-kernel

Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> writes:

> Is it possible to get the kernel to recognise and utilise the
> chipset's IO-APIC if the BIOS has no MP table but does list the
> IO-APIC in the ACPI table(s)?

The new Intel ACPI implementation now merged into 2.5 should support 
this. Of course it may still not work on your particular BIOS.

> If it's possible, is it also meaningful to do this on UP?

Using the IO-APIC makes a lot of sense, because it is a much more
efficient interface to the interrupt controller.

-Andi

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* Re: UP IO-APIC with ACPI table but no MP table?
  2002-04-02 11:42 UP IO-APIC with ACPI table but no MP table? Mikael Pettersson
@ 2002-04-02 12:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Arjan van de Ven @ 2002-04-02 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mikael Pettersson; +Cc: linux-kernel

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to get the kernel to recognise and utilise the
> chipset's IO-APIC if the BIOS has no MP table but does list the
> IO-APIC in the ACPI table(s)?

the mini acpi does this or at least can do it; right now it's not
compiled in for UP though

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