svn commit: r228737 - head/share/man/man4

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 20 14:52:49 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:12:51 am Alexander Motin wrote:
> Author: mav
> Date: Tue Dec 20 14:12:50 2011
> New Revision: 228737
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/228737
> 
> Log:
>   Remove extra "and" left from earlier version.
> 
> Modified:
>   head/share/man/man4/apic.4
> 
> Modified: head/share/man/man4/apic.4
> 
==============================================================================
> --- head/share/man/man4/apic.4	Tue Dec 20 13:53:31 2011	(r228736)
> +++ head/share/man/man4/apic.4	Tue Dec 20 14:12:50 2011	(r228737)
> @@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ and the I/O APIC.
>  There is one LAPIC in each CPU in the system.
>  There is typically one I/O APIC for each peripheral bus in the system.
>  .Pp
> -LAPICs manage all external and interrupts for specific processor in an
> -SMP system.
> +LAPICs manage all external interrupts for specific processor in an SMP 
system.
>  In addition, they are able to accept and generate inter-processor 
interrupts
>  (IPIs).
>  .Pp

Hmm, can you call it a "local APIC" rather than LAPIC?  The Intel manuals
all use the longer form.  Also, 'for a specific processor' reads better.  Note 
that some UP systems have CPUs with local APICs as well, so they are not 
specific to SMP systems.

-- 
John Baldwin


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