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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: hardwired VMI crap
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:15:51 -0800
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Zachary Amsden wrote:
> We faithfully emulate lapic, io_apic, the pit, pic, and a normal
> interrupt subsystem.

Can you not just use the apic clock driver directly then?  Do you need
to do anything special?

    J