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From: Mark Cooke <mpc@star.sr.bham.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Idiot-proof APIC?
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:07:47PM +0100, Allan Sandfeld wrote:
> > Hi, I just want to share some of my stupidity and my experience with it with 
> > you. 
> > I recently had the misfortune to try to put two celerons on an SMP-board. The 
> > bios correctly ignored the second cpu, but the linux-kernel(2.4.17). Would 
> > boot almost normally then emit two APIC-errors to the console(error 2 and 
> > 6?), and shortly after freeze completely.

<snip>
> 
> Actually, with the correct adapters, celerons can be made SMP safe.
> 
> I would immagine that it is hard to detect if there is a adapter operating
> correctly from the APIC code...

Only have to agree with Mike here.  I made the hardware mod to two 
slot-A celerons and haven't had any trouble at all from the machine.

If this is 'fixed', hopefully a command-line override will be added!

Mark

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