John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:51 am, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > >>On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:05:27AM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >> >>>Is the plan still in effect to abolish this device? >> >>To my mind it wouldn't make much sense, given the sheer amount of hardware >>out there which doesn't have an IOAPIC, then again I'm probably out of >>touch with the state of interrupt handling in -CURRENT. > > > All amd64 machines (which is where atpic would be removed) have an APIC. > That's kind of like saying that ISA will be removed because there is PCI =-) Having an APIC doesn't necessarily guarantee that it works. There have been enough reports of problems on the mailing lists over time that I think it's a bit premature to declare the ATPIC dead. Also, is the ATPIC code in amd64 causing problems, holding back progress, or creating a maintenance burden? ScottReceived on Wed Mar 29 2006 - 14:26:29 UTC
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