Maciej W. Rozycki writes:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
> > Ah, right. Here is a dump of the LVT registers:
> >
> > [00000320] = 000100ef
> > [00000330] = 00000200
> > [00000340] = 00010000
> > [00000350] = 00010700
> > [00000360] = 00000400
> > [00000370] = 000000fe
> >
> > Maybe I've misunderstood something (again), but should those vectors
> > really be 0 for 330-360? (At least 330 + 360, which are not masked.)
>
> Masked entries should be fine long-term, although I have a vague
> recollection at least some implementations do send a vector error when an
> LVT register is written with a masked entry implying an invalid vector,
> e.g. a value like 0x00010000.
The original Intel P6s do that. Dunno about the post-P4 ones.
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