On Thu, 5 May 2005, Len Brown wrote:
> Re: SMP using i8259
> While Linux in ACPI mode allows "noapic" on SMP, it isn't recommended.
> It is there for comparisons, debugging, and to work-around the odd
> broken system. It is an exception configuration, and supporting it
> should in no way impact the design for other 99.99% normal systems.
>
> Indeed, note that SMP systems using i8259 instead of IOAPIC
> is explicity forbidden by MPS, and thus would probably fail
> the compatibility test for your favorite high volume binary OS.
I'm not quite sure if that's forbidden by MPS -- the mixed mode certainly
is not as not all interrupt sources may necessarily be routed to one of
I/O APICs, and "noapic" can probably be treated as a special case of the
mixed mode. Regardless, there used to be systems in existence that
wouldn't route IRQ 0 to an I/O APIC, so using that interrupt requires
either the mixed mode or using the "through-i8259A" trick (which
unfortunately does not work for a subset of affected systems as a result
of manufacturers implementing the Intel-recommended glue logic at the
output of the master i8259).
Maciej
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