Re: APIC-Errors+Crashes on GA 586DX, 2.2.17/2.4.3

[Alan Cox]

> /proc/sys/kernel/print_apic_errors
> This would simply disable those "APIC error" kernel logs, so that the
> logfile is not flooded. (45000 log entries in 1 hour are quite a lot).
> Anyway once you know that your board has this problem, IMHO there is no
> further use in those messages.

'My computer is broken, please dont tell me'. At 45,000 an hour you are asking
to get real problems.

> /proc/sys/kernel/enable_apic
> The second one would enable/disable the APIC code for testing purposes -
> like the "noapic" parameter during boottime. But as I have no knowledge
> about those kernel internals, perhaps this wish is impossible to
> implement...

That one is actually very tricky to do. The decision is made at boot time and
rather hard to flip between them.

Alan