RE: spurious 8259A interrupt

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> First, you are using the 8259A (XT-PIC). This means you have
> IO-APIC turned off (or it doesn't exist).

 An I/O APIC can be used for the wirtual-wire mode as well.  Using the
8259A doesn't preclude using an I/O APIC semi-transparently, with ExtINTA
messages travelling across the inter-APIC bus (depending on an APIC
implementation).

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