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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:08:56 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/sfi: fix ioapic gsi range
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On 06/08/2010 01:59 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> No.  There is no reason to loose 16 IDT entries indefinitely.  We may
> need a boot time allocation when we see we have isa irqs, to replace
> the static allocation that we have.  But for the most part we dynamically
> idt entries aka vector numbers today, and there is no reason we can't
> generalize that in the future.
> 

Well, that boot time allocation is one of the things
legacy_pic->nr_legacy_irq is used for, and it really makes sense, I
think.  I would really like to move away from a compile-time allocation,
and I still find it hard to believe it has a reason to exist.

	-hpa

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