[haiku-gsoc] Re: New timer patch (again) (Was: Re: First timer.diff (from private e-mails))

  • From: "Stefano Ceccherini" <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-gsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:13:52 +0200

2008/7/9 Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>:

> BTW I plan to change this. APIC controllers exist also on non-smp
> configurations. Actually I think they exist on pretty much every pc
> out there, except the oldest ones.
> So I think the acpi scanning should be moved out of smp.cpp in the
> boot loader, and it should be done also on non-SMP configurations.
> I and Dustin were also discussing the possibility to use the
> kernel_args structure to pass the needed HPET data from the boot
> loader to the kernel. Would this be a problem ?

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