- The apic interrupt entry points have been rewritten so that each entry
point can serve 32 different vectors. When the entry is executed, it
uses one of the 32-bit ISR registers to determine which vector in its
assigned range was triggered. Thus, the apic code can support 159
different interrupt vectors with only 5 entry points.
- We now always to disable the local APIC to work around an errata in
certain PPros and then re-enable it again if we decide to use the APICs
to route interrupts.
- We no longer map IO APICs or local APICs using special page table
entries. Instead, we just use pmap_mapdev(). We also no longer
export the virtual address of the local APIC as a global symbol to
the rest of the system, but only in local_apic.c. To aid this, the
APIC ID of each CPU is exported as a per-CPU variable.
- Interrupt sources are provided for each intpin on each IO APIC.
Currently, each source is given a unique interrupt vector meaning that
PCI interrupts are not shared on most machines with an I/O APIC.
That mapping for interrupt sources to interrupt vectors is up to the
APIC enumerator driver however.
- We no longer probe to see if we need to use mixed mode to route IRQ 0,
instead we always use mixed mode to route IRQ 0 for now. This can be
disabled via the 'NO_MIXED_MODE' kernel option.
- The npx(4) driver now always probes to see if a built-in FPU is present
since this test can now be performed with the new APIC code. However,
an SMP kernel will panic if there is more than one CPU and a built-in
FPU is not found.
- PCI interrupts are now properly routed when using APICs to route
interrupts, so remove the hack to psuedo-route interrupts when the
intpin register was read.
- The apic.h header was moved to apicreg.h and a new apicvar.h header
that declares the APIs used by the new APIC code was added.
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