Re: kern/43568: Need to ignore un-responsive ioapic

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/43568; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: paul%whooppee.com@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/43568: Need to ignore un-responsive ioapic
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:47:12 +0300

 On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:50:04AM +0000, Paul Goyette wrote:
 >  The suggested patch prevented the ioapic from attaching if it didn't 
 >  report its size/version information correctly;  this is what other BSD's 
 >  seem to do in similar situations.
 
 This seems right and harmless to me.
 
 - Jukka.