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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] tech writer humor
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:54:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ff1c99ad70480d11cfd8d4656963edd@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAB73145-2BF6-4FF9-99FB-6B4EF796902B@gmail.com>

On Tue Feb 22 15:48:01 EST 2011, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> Heh.  You assume a correct ACPI BIOS implementation.  The worst
> offenders I've seen have been Intel-designed motherboards :-P

On Tue Feb 22 15:39:49 EST 2011, nemo.mbox@gmail.com wrote:
> apic ids can be found in the madt table, from acpi, iirc.
>

neither of these comments apply to the registers in question.  the registers
in question are the running configuration of the i/o apic in the intel
IOH-36D.  the madt table or the mp tables reflect a snaphot of *all*
the i/o apics and lapics in the system at the time when bios handed
control over to the operating system (sic.).

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-22  1:45 erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 17:53 ` ron minnich
2011-02-22 18:22   ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 19:20     ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 20:09     ` ron minnich
2011-02-22 20:26       ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-22 20:27       ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 20:46         ` Nemo
2011-02-22 20:47           ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-02-22 20:54           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-02-22 20:57             ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-02-22 21:02               ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 21:09                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-02-23 17:26 ` ron minnich

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