Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:24:36 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Subject: Re: device atpic to be deprecated? Message-ID: <200604031424.38375.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <442A5354.4020108@samsco.org> References: <20060329020527.f8f087a4.conrads@cox.net> <442A5354.4020108@samsco.org>
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On Wednesday 29 March 2006 04:28 am, Scott Long wrote: > There might have been hope at one time that amd64 would not > need it. I beleive that that ioapic is part of the amd64 > system spec that motherboard/chipset makers must implement. Don't forget we also have EM64T support. I have a box with Intel CPUs and it doesn't work without ATPIC. :-( > However, engineering inertia is hard to overcome, and it's > likely that this is just a fantasy. For i386, it simply has > no chance of ever going away. My guess is that it'll take > a next generation platform to completely do away with ISA, > ATPIC, and other legacy components. Hmmm.... maybe that > next-gen platform is the MacIntel? That's another issue. We don't have EFI loader for amd64/i386 and amd64/i386 requires BIOS to boot. Unfortunately we are stuck in the middle of transition. Jung-uk Kim
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