Re: Switch APIC (+nmi, +oprofile) to driver model

[Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>]

Maciej W. Rozycki writes:
 > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > 
 > > +static int __init init_local_apic_devicefs(void)
 > >  {
 > > -	if (apic_pm_state.active)
 > > -		pm_register(PM_SYS_DEV, 0, apic_pm_callback);
 > > +	if (!cpu_has_apic)
 > 
 >  This looks broken -- what if an external local APIC is present?

My goal was to not change any behaviour from our current code, and from
what I can tell, our current code does not support PM suspend and resume
for old external-local-APIC machines. (They're mostly 486 MPs, right?)

The suspend/resume procedures only work on P6/K7 and up. There's a
bug there in that we may try to run the suspend on a UP P5 with enabled
local APIC, which won't work. So far, no one seems to have noticed :->

(Admittedly, the P5 errata sheets say "BIOS should disable the P5 local
APIC on UP" so I don't think this case is very likely.)

/Mikael