Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks

[Chuck Ebbert]

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> The thing is, without the IOAPIC enable it's essentially a no operation 
> since i8259 mode wouldn't use the pin information.

  ...until the user force-enables the IOAPIC.  Then the timer pin
overrides will be ignored as they should be.

  My goal was to fix bugs without altering default behavior, so anyone with
broken IOAPIC mode would not suddenly see problems unless they changed a
startup parameter.


--Chuck Ebbert  20-Nov-04  23:58:19
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