On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:12:00PM +0300, Aaro J Koskinen wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any particular reason why the number of interrupts is limited > to 32 on APIC systems? Is it just a conservative guess on the number of > interrupts anyone might want to need...?
I'm not sure but perhaps this is historical (and now also required again), but if we use a word to mask out interrupts than after 32 we run out of bits. "Who needs more than 32 interrupts anyway?!" :-) > A. > > -- > Aaro Koskinen > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'm the ocean, I'm the giant undertow." > http://www.iki.fi/aaro Regards, -- Bosko Milekic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
