From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: mikpe@csd.uu.se (Mikael Pettersson)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] x86 DMI scan and UP_APIC fixes
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:32:56 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16KMPo-0004sb-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200112291616.RAA10507@harpo.it.uu.se> from "Mikael Pettersson" at Dec 29, 2001 05:16:13 PM
> The x86 UP_APIC code breaks on some machines due to BIOS bugs,
> in particular on all recent Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptops.
> This is something the DMI scan could fix, but unfortunately
> the boot order is such that the DMI scan occurs long after much
> of the core hardware has been detected and initialised.
Agreed. Also it would help for some of the intel 440GX junk where we need
to force the UP APIC on to get the irq delivery working.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-29 16:22 UTC|newest]
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2001-12-29 16:16 Mikael Pettersson
2001-12-29 16:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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