Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 Fix IO_APIC IRQ assignment bug

From: Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 09:59:36 EST

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Mika Penttilä wrote:

> Why can't we use the same vector for multiple ioapic entrys? After all,
> we are already sharing irqs, and an irq is just a cookie for a vector.

 IIRC, there are serious issues with using the same vector for multiple
I/O APIC interrupts, at least for certain implementations. So it's
probably not even worth investigating. 

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