Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:38:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:38:34 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:23571 "HELO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:38:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:33:54 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Benjamin LaHaise , Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UP IO-APIC Message-ID: <20020925143354.GF1102@marowsky-bree.de> References:

<20020924191934.B2453@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020924191934.B2453@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1039 Lines: 30 On 2002-09-24T19:19:34, Benjamin LaHaise said: > > >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. Well, _not_ enabling IO-APIC on UP breaks my Athlon / KT333 at home; random freezes are the result, so I prefer to enable it... So whichever default is chosen, someone is burned. I hate hardware. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br?e -- Principal Squirrel Research and Development, SuSE Linux AG ``Immortality is an adequate definition of high availability for me.'' --- Gregory F. Pfister - 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/