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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:39:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tear <tarrqt@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] IO-APIC blacklist
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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--- Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:

> > +static int __init disable_blacklisted_ioapic(struct dmi_system_id *d)
> > +{
> > +	printk(KERN_WARNING "%s detected... Disabling IO-APIC\n", d->ident);
> > +	skip_ioapic_setup = 1;
> > +	return(0);
> > +}
> 
> Wouldn't this also disable the IOAPIC in the (working) ACPI+IOAPIC case?

Yes, it would. However, I wanted to make my addition
to the kernel generic so that other people with
problematic IO-APIC implementations can blacklist
their systems without checking whether ACPI is enabled
or not.

Thank you for your question/attention.

Regards,
- Tear


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