On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:34:22PM +0000, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, John P. Looney wrote:
> I thought only SMP boards had I/O APICs ?
> no, all P6 class intel cpu's have an integrated PIC. i guess there's
> some logic in the chipset aswell, but it doesn't seem too important.
Actually, I think anything from the P90 on had an APIC of some
description. Didn't think it could be used unless the board supported it
though. If UniP boards can have buckets of IRQs, that's cool.
Kate
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