Subject: Re: Boot properties, take 3
To: Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/20/2007 12:51:44
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:23:52AM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > As I understand it, at least post-vmlocking, there won't be much need
> > for different UP/MP kernels anymore (unless you're specifically
> > stripping one way down for size).
> 
> That's what I'd like to do for x86. The issue there is whether including
> ioapic causes problems with interrupt routing on some systems. I don't know
> what the state of play is with that.

It does cause problems; that's why we have a GENERIC_NOACPI kernel now.
but you can just disable ioapic and acpi from userconf, and you're
back to the legacy x86 interrupts.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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