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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:16:59 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: New i386 interrupt and SMP code..
Message-ID:  <20031031011659.GA31439@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031030173447.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.20031030173447.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:34:47PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> Downsides:
> - ACPI will no longer work as a module for know.  The reason
>   for this is that ACPI's APIC enumerator needs to be able
>   to hook into a SI_SUB_TUNABLES - 1 SYSINIT() due to existing
>   code that wants to know the available CPUs in the system
>   very early (specifically, UMA).

How will one not have to deal with fscked-up AML BIOS code, when one
wants to use MADT rather than mptable's to use the APIC?

I.E., the ACPI-AML bits should be seperatable from the ACPI-MADT bits.



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