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From: Aaro J Koskinen <akoskine@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: ICU_LEN with IO APIC
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On Fri, 31 May 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Bosko Milekic wrote:
> >   I'm not sure but perhaps this is historical (and now also required
> >   again), but if we use a word to mask out interrupts than after 32 we
> >   run out of bits.  "Who needs more than 32 interrupts anyway?!" :-)
>
> Who needs more than 4?

OK, so you guys are running systems with a single IO APIC and even a
single PCI bus... Scalable design. :-)

A.

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