Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:38:09 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leave APIC code inactive by default on i386
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:10:26PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
 > > The number of systems that actually *need* APIC enabled are in the
 > > vast (though growing) minority, so it's unlikely that most newbies
 > > will hit this.  The problem is also the inverse of what you describe.
 > > Typically the distros have DMI lists of machines that *need* APIC
 > > to make it enabled by default so everything 'just works'.
 > 
 > Ok, even more reason for it to go in. Someone might want to let the folks at 
 > Ubuntu know too, they seem to have it enabled in their installer kernel. :D

Last I looked they picked up the same patch we were carrying in Fedora.

		Dave

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