APIC? IO-APIC? (was Re: 2.4.xx: 8139 isn't working)

["dee jay" <deejay2shoes@yahoo.com.au>]

Hi, if i may interject at this point in time, and ask something
related, is there any reason why we should enable APIC or IO-APIC on a
uniprocessor system? What's the difference between the 2, or what's the
practical usage of these?


I'm reading the Configure.help and Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt for
these 2 items and i'm confused.

Thanks.
-dj

 --- Ducrot Bruno <poup@poupinou.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at
10:20:03AM +0000, Michael Knigge wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > my new board (GA-8ST, P4, single-CPU, SiS Chipset) has a RealTek
> 8139 
> > on board which isn't working with Linux 2.4.xx (tried 2.4.18,
> 2.4.19, 
> > 2.4.20rc1 and  2.4.20rc2).
> > 
> > I've attached lspci, dmesg and config from my  2.4.20rc2 and from a
> 
> > 2.2.20, where the NIC is working like a charm....
> > 
> 
> 
> I have the same ethernet card as you, but do not have any trouble.
> Reading your config etc., I guess that your motherboard do not have a
> good support for local IOAPIC.
> 
> You should definitely compile without SMP and without local IOAPIC.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Ducrot Bruno
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