[haiku-commits] Re: r36293 - in haiku/trunk/src/system: boot/platform/bios_ia32 kernel/arch/x86

  • From: Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:44:22 +0200

On 04/15/2010 06:11 PM, Fredrik Holmqvist wrote:
> 2010/4/15  <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Log:
>> * We should check for the I/O APIC before mapping it (since we panic if 
>> mapping
>>  it failed...).
>> * Moved IRQ table reading much earlier (before starting to program the I/O
>>  APIC), though it currently fails, possibly because the device manager isn't
>>  up yet, and there is no embedded controller driver.
> Are you talking about the ACPI embedded controller?
> I have some code cleanup for that I'm planning to commit, but I wonder
> if it needs to be available already at ACPI init for this?

Not necessarily at init, but it would need to be the first driver that
is loaded. I wouldn't mind including it a lower level (ie. having it
built-in instead).

Bye,
   Axel.

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