Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264042AbTFILtc (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 07:49:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264144AbTFILtb (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 07:49:31 -0400 Received: from delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl ([213.192.72.1]:412 "EHLO delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264042AbTFILt3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 07:49:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:57:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Zwane Mwaikambo cc: "Brian J. Murrell" , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: local apic timer ints not working with vmware: nolocalapic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Technical University of Gdansk 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: 1383 Lines: 32 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo 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? So far I've met three users of i82489DX-based systems, two of whom helped me making them work with 2.4. So at least at the beginning of 2.4.x they used to work; hopefully nothing has got broken since then (I try to monitor changes, but without real hardware to do testing something might have slipped in unnoticed). I don't know if these people have kept upgrading their kernels nor whether they still use the systems. There were no bug reports, either, which basically may mean anything. Why do you consider the systems broken? > Regardless i'll update the patch. Great! -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + - 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/