Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 Fix IO_APIC IRQ assignment bug

Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl)
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:59:36 +0200 (MET DST)


On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Mika Penttilä wrote:

> Why can't we use the same vector for multiple ioapic entrys? After all,
> we are already sharing irqs, and an irq is just a cookie for a vector.

IIRC, there are serious issues with using the same vector for multiple
I/O APIC interrupts, at least for certain implementations. So it's
probably not even worth investigating.

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