Hello.

Does OpenBSD 3.8 use the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt
Controller) ?

Some cards, e,g telephony and framegrabbers have issues with the
limited standard XT 16 IRQ's.

APIC motherboards give you 24 or more (I've seen as many as 101)
interrupts.

Besides doing a dmesg | grep irq, is there another way at seeing the
assigned interrupts.  e.g. For Linux  cat /proc/interrupts  reveals:-

Dell PowerEdge 2850 (dual Xeon)

cat /proc/interrupts
          CPU0       CPU1
 0:    6184515         72    IO-APIC-edge  timer
 1:          8          1    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
 9:          0          0   IO-APIC-level  acpi
12:         65          1    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
14:         11          2    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
46:      19595          1   IO-APIC-level  megaraid
64:      66366          1   IO-APIC-level  eth0
65:      77045          1   IO-APIC-level  eth1
101: 6113521 1 IO-APIC-level wctdm
NMI: 1 0
LOC: 6184694 6184698
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

Regards...Martin

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