Re: HEADSUP: New i386 interrupt and SMP code..

From: David O'Brien (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 10/31/03

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    Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:16:59 -0800
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

    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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