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> > Right. The current io-apic code probably doesn't work at all on non-SMP
> > systems, so you have to compile for UP to make it work.
> >
> > I'll probably make it default to using the old setup, with a run-time
> > utility to set up the IO-APIC interrupt handling. That way we won't be
> > making any mistakes at bootup, so the machine will at least work, and we
> > can write a small user-level program that parses the PCI irq tables to
> > find out what the pirq setting should be..
> >
> > That should also make the SMP kernel boot on an UP machine again.
> >
> > Linus
-=- James Mastros