Fabian Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, again quick note from work by webmail (sorry): > > > I think it's the best to keep it as simple as possible. If necessary, > try > > to use APIC. But in your case, with the need of many simple machines, I > > would try to contact some mainboard vendors and get some information > which > > machines would work without that APIC workaround. Once found a working > one buy > > those and everything should be fine! > > Please don't spread the impression that the APIC support is some kind of > "workaround". If the Mainboard/CPU you are using has a local APIC(-IO) chip, > then activating the APIC support in the Kernel (and probably xenomai. I'm > using RTAI and had to recompile it also) is not a workaround, but just > correct usage of modern hardware.
I'm sorry, maybe me words weren't precise enough. If every vendor would do its work then I would agree. But in fact there are still some buggy bios on the market which don't implement APIC correctly. So, to give a better hint: Choose a mainboard without APIC or if you need APIC, choose a vendor with a non-buggy bios! IMO it's the best to keep it as simple as possible, which means if you only need functionality provided by old XT PIC try to stick to such a board because this way you don't have to care about buggy bios. Karl -- von Karl Reichert Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ RTnet-users mailing list RTnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-users
