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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:12:48 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@badula.org>
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Subject: Re: UP local APIC is deadly on SMP Athlon
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Ion Badulescu wrote:
> A UP kernel compiled with CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y dies a very horrible
> death on an SMP Athlon motherboard (Tyan S2462 and S2468), flooding the
> console with the following messages:

IMO just assume this option is just broken, unless you absolutely need it.

Red Hat ships UP kernels with this option disabled, because either the 
code, the BIOS, or both are typically broken.

	Jeff



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