Bosko Milekic wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:12:00PM +0300, Aaro J Koskinen wrote:
> > Is there any particular reason why the number of interrupts is limited
> > to 32 on APIC systems? Is it just a conservative guess on the number of
> > interrupts anyone might want to need...?
>
> I'm not sure but perhaps this is historical (and now also required
> again), but if we use a word to mask out interrupts than after 32 we
> run out of bits. "Who needs more than 32 interrupts anyway?!" :-)
Who needs more than 4?
Foo on PCI.
-- Terry
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