On 4 May 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The example that sticks out in my head is we rely on the MP table to
> tell us if the local apic is in pic_mode or in virtual wire mode.
> When all we really have to do is ask it.
You can't. IMCR is write-only and may involve chipset-specific
side-effects. Then even if IMCR exists, a system's firmware might have
chosen the virtual wire mode for whatever reason (e.g. broken hardware).
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