From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: ALESSANDRO.SUARDI@oracle.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:02:39 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301201502.QAA25383@harpo.it.uu.se> (raw)
Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > Your P4-based Latitude probably has a different BIOS than the buggy
> > P3-based ones, and it may work better. Try commenting out the
> > local_apic_kills_bios entry for "Dell Latitude" at around line 692
> > in arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c and rebuild the kernel. If it
>
> (ahem) I had tried that in 2.5.58 already ;)
>
> However I rebuilt 2.5.59 with that change, and I'm not going further:
>
> No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Ah, your P4 needs another patch. Edit arch/i386/kernel/apic.c, function
detect_init_APIC(), at line 631, and remove the "&& cpu_has_apic" after
the "boot_cpu_data.x86 == 15" test. (Or check if your BIOS can be set up
to boot with the local APIC enabled.)
/Mikael
next reply other threads:[~2003-01-20 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-20 15:02 Mikael Pettersson [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-23 8:55 Brouard Nicolas
2003-05-23 9:02 ` mikpe
2003-05-23 21:04 ` Brouard Nicolas
2003-05-23 17:41 ` Mark Watts
2003-01-20 15:23 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 14:38 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 14:13 Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-20 13:49 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 13:28 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 13:41 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-20 12:31 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 13:19 ` Dave Jones
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