There are various options documented in i386/conf/LINT, there is more to
come over the next few days.
The kernel should run pretty much "as before" without the options to
activate SMP mode.
There are a handful of known "loose ends" that need to be fixed, but
have been put off since the SMP kernel is in a moderately good condition
at the moment.
This commit is the result of the tinkering and testing over the last 14
months by many people. A special thanks to Steve Passe for implementing
the APIC code!
This parameter is intended to allow new kernels to work with old LKM binaries,
provided the revision ID is incremented whenever the PCI LKM interface is
changed. The revision ID does not at all protect against changes in data
structures accesses by the driver.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
1) Supports PCI to PCI bridge devices (and tries to initialise them,
even if the BIOS is brain dead).
2) Supports shared PCI interrupts. Interrupt handlers now MUST return
'0' if they found nothing to do, '1' otherwise.
New features tested with i486 systems based on the Intel Saturn and
a DEC 4channel Ethernet card only, but expected to work on most systems.
The option PCI_REMAP has been removed !
Submitted by: Wolfgang Stanglmeier <wolf@kintaro.cologne.de>
