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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:30:08 +0100 (MET)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: NMI watchdog question.
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On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> By any chance, does this implementation imply that if I boot SMP with
> 'noapic' the NMI watchdog won't work? It doesn't, but I am not sure I had
> it on before I turned off the APIC.

 The I/O APIC watchdog won't be enabled as the chip isn't used then.  You
may still use the local APIC watchdog (i.e. "nmi_watchdog=2"), but that
requires at least a P6-class processor (while the I/O APIC watchdog works
even with the i486). 

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