What's an "apic"

[Deepak Saxena]

Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller.  It's basically
a part of the x86 chipset that's in charge of routing interrupts
from devices to the CPU.  What's the problem you're trying to 
solve? I believe (not 100% sure) that on Linux, the kernel
just re-programs the APIC anyways, so BIOS setting shouldn't
matter.  But this is x86, so who knows. :)

~Deepak

On Jan 23 2003, at 18:42, Gene Holmerud was caught saying:
> A tech support person suggested "disabling apic in
> your bios".  I looked in my CMOS setup, but nothing
> looked like "apic".  An acronym?
> 
> Gene
> 
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