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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: K7 SMP
From:       Kurt Garloff <K.Garloff () ping ! de>
Date:       1999-04-30 20:12:38
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On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:40:15PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> the above source file seems to infer that interrupts are always
> delivered to cpu#0. perhaps this is just for initialisation purposes,
> i don't know.

There's more to do than IRQ handling ...
Remember the old days of 2.0, where we didn't support the IO-APIC on the
ix86 to distribute the IRQs. Still, processes could run in parallel ...

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