Re: IO-APIC on nforce2 [PATCH]

[Craig Bradney <cbradney@zip.com.au>]

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On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 02:35, Peter Clifton wrote:
> Sorry Christian, meant to send to the list rather than just you.
> 
> I'm watching this thread with interest, I've got an ASUS A7N8X board,
> and have had annoying lockups with most kernels I've compiled myself
> from 2.4 upwards. Some luck caused me to try turning APIC off, and the
> system hasn't crashed since.
> 
> Is there any reason why turning APIC off reduces performance?
> 
> I'd be happy to provide another person to test patches (with the proviso
> that if you want detailed debugging information, you'd have to suggest
> how to obtain it, since when it locks up, it tends to lock good!)
> 
> I'm currently running 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 (Although I can't see a list of
> what patches they have already applied).
> 
> I'd be happy to try a vanilla kernel with whatever patches if that would
> help out solving the problem.

Peter, I have 2.6.3gentoo r1 on my box with a A7N8X Deluxe v2 with Ross
Dicksons 2.6.3 idlec1halt patches and its as stable as a rock. I've left
it on that kernel as there are still many discussions recently posted re
2.6.5. My 3 other PCs are on gentoo dev source 2.6.5 and are solid, but
I've left the Athlon on 2.6.3 due to the fact its working just fine now

Craig

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