Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264041AbTE3WTq (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 18:19:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264090AbTE3WTq (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 18:19:46 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:16082 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264092AbTE3WTp (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 18:19:45 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Brian J. Murrell" Subject: Re: local apic timer ints not working with vmware: nolocalapic Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 18:14:37 -0400 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <2C8EEAE5E5C@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> <20030528173432.GA21379@linux.interlinx.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 28 May 2003 13:42:13 -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > I submitted a patch for nolapic before... Did you get any response as to whether it was going to be accepted into the kernel or not? The unfortunate thing is that even this sort of fix will not help my situation. The reason being (which I only discovered by accident when I set "dont_enable_local_apic = 1" rather than "dont_use_local_apic_timer" and it didn't correct the booting problem) is that it seems that even if the local apic is set disabled by setting dont_enable_local_apic = 1 in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c, setup_APIC_clocks() is still called. So the jist is that using the local apic timer feature is not dependent on using the local apic, as per the dont_enable_local_apic and dont_use_local_apic_timer flags in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c. Maybe this is wrong, I dunno unfortunately. I don't know anything about this APIC stuff so I don't know if that is correct or not, but it is what happens. Thanx for the input though, much appreciated, b. - 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/