Re: [9fans] Keyboard and Mouse

[Eldar Tsraev <sarelius@gmail.com>]

Thanx a lot! That works.
And where a newbie can find information like that. Some known bugs and etc?

2009/7/10 erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>:
>> > This problem is well known, and seems to be
>> > caused by HyperThreading on some CPU.
>> >
>> > Try to add the following line to "plan9.ini":
>> > *nomp=1
>> >
>> > It will solve this problem.
>>
>> hyperthreading?  that doesn't sound right.
>>
>> do you mean a bad mp interrupt table?
>
> you can avoid ht by setting *ncpu=1 in your
> plan9.ini without disabling mp interrupts.
> so it should be easy to say definitivly which
> one causes the problem.
>
> as a further explainer, 8259 interrupts can't
> work in an mp environment.  you need to
> use either mp interrupts or msi interrupts.
> since plan 9 doesn't implement msi, *nomp=1
> implies that only one cpu may be activated.
> so a uniprocessor may still use mp interrupts.
>
> - erik
>
>

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