Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:12:38 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: K7 SMP |
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On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:40:15PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote: > the above source file seems to infer that interrupts are always > delivered to cpu#0. perhaps this is just for initialisation purposes, > i don't know.
There's more to do than IRQ handling ... Remember the old days of 2.0, where we didn't support the IO-APIC on the ix86 to distribute the IRQs. Still, processes could run in parallel ...
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