Re: problem on dell r610

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 07:32:31PM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> [...]
> This is specific to ACPI -- or more specifically, configuration of the Intel
> APIC system through ACPI. Can someone clarify how and why Xen tries to use
> "mpacpi" (or ACPI at all) without LAPIC?

NetBSD/Xen needs mpacpi to find the physical CPUs, and, I guess, to
proper interrupt routings. But the lapic itself is entirely managed
by the xen hypervisor and can't be acceded by the dom0 kenrel.


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