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> But if APIC is even used on my more than 1 year old 40 Euro Socket A 

once sparrow does not a summer make.


now can we get constructive again. If you find a real case where noapic
is needed on an SMP machine, preferably one where it wasn't needed
before earlier in 2.6, let us know; it's worthwhile to chase those down
since we know it's a decent use case and it's not flaky hardware.