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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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Subject: Re: device atpic to be deprecated?
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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.

Regards,
BMS