From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] tech writer humor
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:22:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8888e046d6af4ac7f84ec61882b1f75@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimRk72qcgP1aiFs12NTuK+x4a+QR+zoVFxu3hkb@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue Feb 22 12:57:18 EST 2011, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:45 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > ah yes, that clears it up
> >
> > 19.4.22
> > APICID
> > This register uniquely identifies an APIC in the system. This register is not used by
> > OS'es anymore and is still implemented in hardware because of FUD.
> >
> > (Intel® 5520 chipset and Intel® 5500 chipset datasheet pub 321328)
>
> Did intel claim that the OSes should be using ACPI? What do they use instead?
>
> ron
> p.s. I appreciate the humor but it does lead to a serious question.
afik, acpi has nothing to do with this problem. i believe this particular
tech writer intends to claim that nobody uses physical addressing anymore.
but i believe bios still needs to use physical addressing before logical addressing
is established. so i think the writer may be speaking a misleading half
of the whole story.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-22 18:22 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 [this message]
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
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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