Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1

[Alan Cox]

> > Intel stuff appears to always be happy poking in APIC space. I don't know
> > if this is related to the chip internals on the non APIC capable chips.
> 
> Nononono... the 82489DX is an *external* APIC, which should be usable
> on any Socket 5/7 CPU...

I know of no socket 7 board with an 82489DX, and no board on the planet which
has 82489DX and works SMP with a non intel processor. I accept its a heuristic
but so is the current behaviour, and the current heuristic isnt working for
as many cases.

Alan

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