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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 2002 01:39:40 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Aaro J Koskinen <akoskine@cc.helsinki.fi>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ICU_LEN with IO APIC
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.30.0206040123470.9357-100000@sirppi.helsinki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <3CF7E5C9.82526E0A@mindspring.com>

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On Fri, 31 May 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Bosko Milekic wrote:
> >   I'm not sure but perhaps this is historical (and now also required
> >   again), but if we use a word to mask out interrupts than after 32 we
> >   run out of bits.  "Who needs more than 32 interrupts anyway?!" :-)
>
> Who needs more than 4?

OK, so you guys are running systems with a single IO APIC and even a
single PCI bus... Scalable design. :-)

A.

-- 
Aaro Koskinen
E-mail: aaro@iki.fi            "I'm the ocean, I'm the giant undertow."
http://www.iki.fi/aaro


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