From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267139AbUBRCLq (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:11:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267146AbUBRCLp (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:11:45 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:26941 "EHLO pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267139AbUBRCLn (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:11:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:06:35 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Cannot enable APIC with 2.6.2 To: linux-kernel Message-id: <028901c3f5c3$d6827e90$6501a8c0@northbrook> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It is not strictly related to ACPI, but many newer systems that support APIC (and, for Pentium 4 machines, HyperThreading as well) don't export any "old-style" MP tables that describe the IO APIC (or the HT CPU siblings), and these can only be detected through ACPI. Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tetsuji Rai" Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel To: "Mikael Pettersson" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:55 AM Subject: Re: Cannot enable APIC with 2.6.2 > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > ... > > > # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support > > > # > > > # CONFIG_ACPI is not set > > > > ACPI is disabled. Enable it and try again. > > Thank you! I didn't know APIC is related to ACPI. > > -- > Tetsuji Rai (in Tokyo) aka AF-One (Athlete's Foot-One) > Born to be the luckiest guy in the world! May the Force be with me! > http://www.geocities.com/tetsuji_rai > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/fcgi?cmd=view_feedback&id=1855 > fax: 1-516-706-0320 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/