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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