device atpic to be deprecated?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 29 13:43:24 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:51 am, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:05:27AM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > Is the plan still in effect to abolish this device?
>
> To my mind it wouldn't make much sense, given the sheer amount of hardware
> out there which doesn't have an IOAPIC, then again I'm probably out of
> touch with the state of interrupt handling in -CURRENT.

All amd64 machines (which is where atpic would be removed) have an APIC.

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