From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: force x86_64 arches to boot kdump kernels on boot cpu
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:24:11 +0100
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> So, it sounds to me then, like unless I'm willing to really re-write the APIC
> setup code (which I don't feel qualified to do quite yet), that the immediate
> solution would be to not rely on interrupts in legacy mode, which was according
> to my understanding, what the use of the irqpoll command line option was
> supposed to enable. 

irqpoll won't fix the timer interrupt.

-Andi
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