[luau] M$ secret code....

[Eric Hattemer]

To be honest, I don't know which one I meant.  I get confused with all of
the {a,p,c,i} accronyms that exist.  There's APIC, ACPI, and possibly a
third.  One of which is a somewhat new motherboard specification that routes
all devices down one interrupt, after which the motherboard splits those
into little virtual interrupts that it uses for its own processor
interrupts.  Mostly this was just because the old system only had 16IRQs,
and some people might need more without having drivers that support IRQ
sharring.

-Eric Hattemer
----- Original Message -----
From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] M$ secret code....


> W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> ...
> > <The APIC support in both windows and linux works just fine, but
> > windows has the option to turn APIC off on installation.>
> >
> > I didn't know that Linux has APIC support?
>
> It does have APIC support (though maybe he speaks of ACPI as I don't
> even know if windows bothers to mention APIC vs. PIC).  It is a compile
> time option for uniprocessor kernels, and always on for SMP kernels.
>
> So it's configurable, but not at runtime.
>
>
> As for most things, you'd be surprised how configurable the kernel is,
> even at runtime.  However, most distributions don't mention them except
> in the help guides for fear or overwhelming the new users.  Of course
> all kernel options are documented in the "Documentation" directory under
> the Linux kernel source tree.
>
> Regarding the size comment before: you obviously haven't been introduced
> to the "mini-distros".  I personally have a firewall/network appliance
> bootdisk that has most things your average networker would want...  It
> fits on a single floppy.
>
> --MonMotha
>
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