Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760634AbXIJTMm (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:12:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756642AbXIJTMa (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:12:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41329 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756114AbXIJTM3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:12:29 -0400 Message-ID: <46E59716.6020404@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:12:22 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Prakash Punnoor CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Why do so many machines need "noapic"? References: <46DF3BFF.9000809@redhat.com> <46E1A7B5.6000104@redhat.com> <200709080717.58271.prakash@punnoor.de> In-Reply-To: <200709080717.58271.prakash@punnoor.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 23 On 09/08/2007 01:17 AM, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > On the day of Friday 07 September 2007 Chuck Ebbert hast written: >> On 09/06/2007 07:31 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: >>> Chuck Ebbert writes: >>>> Some systems lock up without the noapic option. >>> Please find patterns: cpu type, chipsets, mainboard vendors etc. >> This is the first one I've actually had in front of me: >> >> HP TX1000 notebook >> Nvidia C51/MCP51 mobile chipset > > Do you have a hpet? If not, have you tried using acpi_use_timer_override with > apic? Yes, it has an hpet. And I tried every combination of options I could think of. But, even stranger, x86_64 works (only i386 fails.) - 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/