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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