Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:31:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: cbrown@aracnet.com Cc: terry@lambert.org, smp@csn.net, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: EISA cards. Message-ID: <199707172031.NAA03759@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <33CDD447.25F5C25B@earthling.net> from "Chris Browning" at Jul 17, 97 00:13:59 am
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> > > Why would you not want to abandon the 8254? Why not use the APIC's > > > timer? I would imagine that it was put there for this purpose when > > > running in full symetric mode. > > > > This is a HAL issue. > > > > The problem, I suspect, is that we Steve wants the kernel to run > > on non-APIC machines as well (correct me if I'm wrong), and > > the kernel expects timer services. > > And which SMP machines do not have a APIC? Maybe I should have made > myself more clear. Why not abandon the 8254 completely when in > Full symmetric mode. You have to do a bunch of stuff when > you switch modes, so why not add this to it. Because we want one kernel, not seperate SMP and UP kernels. That was the whole point of Steve's self-modifying code proposal. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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