IO APIC - APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin
2
APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0
The above is a diagnostic from a FreeBSD box bootup, this would seem to
suggest that the motherboard rather than Linux is at fault....
Tim
On Friday 15 Mar 2002 16:06, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> > Now I've
> > also heard that DELL does not properly setup the APIC chip in
> > the bios because MS os's don't use it. Have no idea if this
> > is true or not.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, BIOS and Linux work together to set up the
> APICs properly on the PowerEdge 6400 (and all our other servers too). If
> someone has proof that we don't, and what should be done instead, please
> let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
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