Re: Fixes for nforce2 hard lockup, apic, io-apic, udma133 covered

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 ross.alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 2) If the local apic is running is it necessary to use the 8254 as a 
> timer?

 The 8254 timer is used for timekeeping -- it would be unnecessarily ugly 
to stuff this fuctionality to the APIC timer on one of CPUs.

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