device atpic to be deprecated?
Jung-uk Kim
jkim at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 3 18:25:01 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 04:28 am, Scott Long wrote:
> There might have been hope at one time that amd64 would not
> need it. I beleive that that ioapic is part of the amd64
> system spec that motherboard/chipset makers must implement.
Don't forget we also have EM64T support. I have a box with Intel CPUs
and it doesn't work without ATPIC. :-(
> However, engineering inertia is hard to overcome, and it's
> likely that this is just a fantasy. For i386, it simply has
> no chance of ever going away. My guess is that it'll take
> a next generation platform to completely do away with ISA,
> ATPIC, and other legacy components. Hmmm.... maybe that
> next-gen platform is the MacIntel?
That's another issue. We don't have EFI loader for amd64/i386 and
amd64/i386 requires BIOS to boot. Unfortunately we are stuck in the
middle of transition.
Jung-uk Kim
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