On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Ollie Lho wrote:
> In LinuxBIOS we init the i8259 with i8259.inc. But in the kernel
> the same code is executed again. Can the init code been run twice
> without hardware reset for i8259 ?? Does i8259 consider the 2nd time
> init as some knid of "operation programming" (probably illeagle) ??
well, good question. But without that init in linuxbios we never get
through the bogomips test, because there are no clock interrupts.
I actually think (from memory of the 8259) that this second programming is
really not a problem. But I don't know.
ron
