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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