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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:44:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
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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.
>
> Clearly this would be desirable to work, as noapic is needed on a fairly
> large minority of machines.

You're not using IO-APIC interrupt handling therefore you can't use it to 
deliver to the Local-APIC unit. You're out of luck, just use Local-APIC 
NMI watchdog.

	Zwane

PS first time i've heard 'fairly large minority' ;)

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