From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86: Cleanup prose of Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:28:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080414102824.GB20649@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080414101747.GI29599@tull.net>
* Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:46:03AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> wrote:
> > > I wouldn't know that, but I still have to use 'noapic' to get my AMD
> > > box to boot :-(
> >
> > oh. If "noapic" is still necessary with x86/latest:
> >
> > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README
>
> Thanks; I'll retest on latest then. I didn't realise the problem was
> fixed.
just to make sure: nothing _specific_ was done in this area, this is
just to make sure we'll both deal with the same codebase. But in
general, if a box needs "noapic", that signals a bug we should try to
solve in the kernel automatically (even if it's BIOS inflicted damage).
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-14 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-11 15:40 Nick Andrew
2008-04-13 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-13 11:25 ` Nick Andrew
2008-04-14 9:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 10:17 ` Nick Andrew
2008-04-14 10:28 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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