James Tabor wrote:
Hi! Hartmut Birr wrote:
Hi, if your machine can run M$ windows in APIC mode, you can use the SMP build. For using the apic mode, the bios must provide an MP structure. The acpi structures doesn't contain the wiring between the apic and the physical interrupt lines. But sharing of interrupts in non apic mode should also work. I've a test machine which does share one interrupt with two scsi controllers and one network card. The scsi cards work perfectly. The nic driver is loaded, but it didn't work properly. I think this has nothing to do with the interrupt.
- Hartmut
I'm run Linux with APIC uniprocessor compiled w/o smp support. But would that make a difference?
No, that is the same. Sorry, If I assumed that you are using windows. :-)
I'll try compiling smp to see.
I think, it is possible to use the smp hal with the non smp kernel to enable the apic support. There are only some little changes in ntoskrnl\ke\i386\irq.c necessary.
- Hartmut