Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:46:05 +0100 (BST)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
cc: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
       hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/15] x86: move enabling of io_apic to prepare_cpus
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > we need clear_IO_APIC before enable setup error vector, in case there
> > is wrong setting in ioapic by BIOS...
> 
>  Fair enough, although it is still interesting why it would only trigger 
> in the 64-bit mode and why shouldn't the BIOS be fixed instead.

 Then again -- what if X86_LOCAL_APIC is set, but X86_IO_APIC is not?

  Maciej
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