Re: UP IO-APIC

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:19:34 -0400

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:01:10PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <Pine.GSO.4.33.0209241119500.11624-100000@sweetums.bluetronic.net>,
> Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net> wrote:
> >The local
> >APIC makes perfect sense albeit rare. Single processor IO APICs are very
> >rare and are usually MP systems with only one processor.
>
> I think most AMD Athlon boards have an IO APIC

I'd love to have it enabled in a distro kernel, but as Arjan pointed out, it
currently breaks some laptops if enabled. What we need is someone to weed
things out such that io apic setup gets done after command line parsing, but
that is a bit tricky...

-ben
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/