cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_pci_link.c acpi_pcib.cacpi_pcib_acpi.c acpi_pcib_pci.c acpi_pcibvar.h

[Nate Lawson]

Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 
>>He's using an I/O APIC.  These are probably all entries that 
>>don't have a link 
>>device but just a hardwired global interrupt number.  Did you 
>>test that case?
> 
> 
> Yes, I have "device apic" in my kernel config file. Is this a bad thing to
> do for a UP system?
>
> I remember googling "device apic" and finding at least some info that seemed
> to indicate that it was off by default in GENERIC simply because there are a
> few I/O APICs that are buggy, and that it actually helped on systems with
> properly working chips.

No need to disable it although if disabling it fixes your problems, that 
would be an interesting data point.

> Should I leave it out of my kernel config? (I'm just about to recompile with
> Nate's extra debug output patch.)

Leave it in.  The debug output is more important right now.

-Nate