July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1744 pages
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Most IA32-based systems incorporate an Interrupt Controller that receives interrupt requests from IO devices and passes them to the processor (or, in a multiprocessor system, to one or more of the processors). The Interrupt Controller typically consists of one of the following:
In a single processor PC-AT compatible machine, a pair of cascaded 8259A PICs (Programmable Interrupt Controllers). See Figure 61-1 on page 1500.
In a multiprocessor system, an IO APIC module. See Figure 61-5 on page 1506.
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