ioapic(4)

ioapic4

I/o advanced programmable interrupt controller

Usage

ioapic0 at mainbus0

Overview

ioapic is an I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC). It provides interrupt management for systems with multiple I/O subsystems and can distribute interrupts across multiple processors.

Standards

ioapic is based on Intel's 82093AA I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (I/O APIC) specification.

History

The ioapic driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.5.

Authors

The ioapic driver was written by Bill Sommerfield.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.