Re: Request for pointers

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:02 +0100, Emmanuel Colbus wrote:
> > This is a request for pointers.
> > 
> > Since the introduction of PCI, the interrupt handling mechanisms on the
> > Pentium have gone from "merely crap" to "bitched all to hell". There are
> > more bad IOAPIC chips, bad motherboards, and so forth than one can keep
> > track of.
> 
> What do you mean, PCI or PIC? About the PCI bus, I know some errata
> are published at http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/specs.htm .
> 
> About the PIC, sorry, I don't know.

I mean the APICs. There have been various vendor bugs that are quite
horrible.