Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:14:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:14:22 -0400 Received: from to-velocet.redhat.com ([216.138.202.10]:37367 "EHLO touchme.toronto.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:14:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:19:34 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UP IO-APIC Message-ID: <20020924191934.B2453@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from miquels@cistron.nl on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:01:10PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 20 On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:01:10PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article , > Ricky Beam 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/