question on ACPI documentation

Earl Lapus earl.lapus at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 01:22:00 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Lowell Gilbert
<lgusenet at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>
>  They are similar acronyms, but distinct.  An APIC is an interrupt
>  controller, and disabling it can avoid problems with interrupt storms,
>  but is unlikely to affect power handling.
>
>  If you re-read that section of the Handbook, you will see that it
>  refers to disabling the APIC, not ACPI.
>

Thank you for pointing that out. I appreciate it.


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