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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs just because there's no local APIC
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:14:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3A9220.4070807@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906181206190.4213@localhost.localdomain>

On 06/18/09 09:08, Len Brown wrote:
>> In principle, the local APIC and the I/O APIC are distinct (but related)
>> components, which can be independently present.
>>     
>
> bzzzzt, but thanks for playing:-)
>   

Perhaps I should have expressed that a bit more clearly:  you could, if
mad, build a machine with I/O APICs and some other mechanism for
delivering the interrupts to CPUs.  In practice, I doubt anyone ever
has, or ever would.

The only actual exception I know of is Xen's replacement of the physical
local APIC with a paravirtualized interrupt interface.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 18:22 [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs just because there's no local APIC Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-12 18:28 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-12 18:33   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-12 20:11 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-06-15  2:01   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-12 20:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-15  2:06   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-15 10:47     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-15 20:49       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-15 21:58         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-16 19:38           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-17  5:10             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-17 12:02             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-17 17:32               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-18  2:58                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-18 19:34                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-18 20:28                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-18 21:09                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-19  1:38                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-19  3:10                           ` [Xen-devel] " Jiang, Yunhong
2009-06-18 12:26                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-15 10:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-18 16:08 ` Len Brown
2009-06-18 19:14   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-06-18 19:27     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-18 19:48       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-18 20:39         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-18 22:33           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-19  2:42             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-19 19:58               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-19 23:44                 ` [Xen-devel] " Nakajima, Jun
2009-06-20  7:39                   ` Keir Fraser
2009-06-20  8:21                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-20  8:57                       ` Tian, Kevin
2009-06-20 10:22                         ` Keir Fraser
2009-06-20  8:18                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-19  5:32             ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-19  5:50               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-19  7:52               ` [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs justbecause " Jan Beulich
2009-06-19  8:16                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-20  3:58                   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-20  5:40                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-20  5:58                       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-18 22:51     ` [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs just because " Maciej W. Rozycki

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