Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263722AbTFERwO (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:52:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264780AbTFERwO (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:52:14 -0400 Received: from modemcable204.207-203-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.203.207.204]:46210 "EHLO montezuma.mastecende.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263722AbTFERwN (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:52:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:54:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo X-X-Sender: zwane@montezuma.mastecende.com To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" cc: "Brian J. Murrell" , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: local apic timer ints not working with vmware: nolocalapic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 668 Lines: 18 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > You may have a valid SMP table and discrete local APICs (i82489DX) which > are not reported in CPU capability bits. The "nolocalapic" option should > handle them, too. Otherwise it would be a surprising inconsistency. Good point, out of interest, have you come across broken system like that? Regardless i'll update the patch. Thanks, Zwane -- function.linuxpower.ca - 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/