[haiku-development] Re: Bug #5 (Boot partition problem on USB key)
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:47:17 +0100 CET
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:49:33 +0100, Stefano Ceccherini wrote
> > 2008/11/17 François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>:
> >> Didn't we switch to using APIC for IRQ handling by default on
> >> uniprocessor machines too recently ?
> >>
> >> Guess I should try forcing using the PIC instead.
> >
> > We could have a safe mode switch for this too.
>
> We didn't switch to it. What you're referring to is either IOAPICs
> for
> interrupt routing or APIC timers for timers. APICs are used for
> timers on all
> processors that support them by now, yes. The IOAPIC isn't used yet
> however,
> because it cannot be fully initialized yet, due to the missing PCI
> interrupt
> configuration that depends on ACPI. I've made the ACPI module usable
> at the
> stage it is needed, but I haven't added actual code to retrieve the
> information.
Hmm that'd explain why the disable IOAPIC menu entry I just added
wouldn't help :D
François.
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