Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267772AbUJONac (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:30:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267777AbUJONab (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:30:31 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:3791 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267772AbUJON3g (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:29:36 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc4 No local APIC present or hardware disabled From: Alan Cox To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Mikael Pettersson , "mobil@wodkahexe.de" , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20041012195448.2eaabcea.mobil@wodkahexe.de> <16750.23132.41441.649851@alkaid.it.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1097843198.9855.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:26:41 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 636 Lines: 18 On Iau, 2004-10-14 at 23:27, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > + printk("Not enabling local APIC " > + "because of frequent BIOS bugs\n"); > + printk("You can enable it with \"lapic\"\n"); > + return -1; > + } Looks completely wrong to me. The BIOS disabled it or left it disabled because they chose not to support it. We enabled it and then relied on bios functionality. Our bug - 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/