Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64: move apic init in init_IRQs

[Andi Kleen]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 17:13, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> All kinds of ugliness exists because we don't initialize
> the apics during init_IRQs.
> - We calibrate jiffies in non apic mode even when we are using apics.
> - We have to have special code to initialize the apics when non-smp.
> - The legacy i8259 must exist and be setup correctly, even
>   we won't use it past initialization.

Actually some setups use its timer even in ACPI mode. Do you take this into 
account?


In theory it looks reasonable, but I guess it won't work without the bogus
watchdog change. That would need to be resolved first.

-Andi
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