HEADSUP: New i386 interrupt and SMP code..

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:34:47PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> Downsides:
> - ACPI will no longer work as a module for know.  The reason
>   for this is that ACPI's APIC enumerator needs to be able
>   to hook into a SI_SUB_TUNABLES - 1 SYSINIT() due to existing
>   code that wants to know the available CPUs in the system
>   very early (specifically, UMA).

How will one not have to deal with fscked-up AML BIOS code, when one
wants to use MADT rather than mptable's to use the APIC?

I.E., the ACPI-AML bits should be seperatable from the ACPI-MADT bits.