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From: "Jack F. Vogel" <jfv@bluesong.net>
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To: "Craig I. Hagan" <hagan@cih.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: APIC issues with 2.4.19-rcX-acY
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:18:13 -0700
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On Monday 22 July 2002 11:01 am, Craig I. Hagan wrote:
> I've seen the following error when booting a dell 2550 (dual p3,
> serverworks CNB20HE chipset):
>
> APIC error on CPU0: 08(08)
> (repeats until i hard reset the machine)
>
> I've seen this for every combination of 2.4.19-rc/ac patch that i've tried,
> however the 2.4.19-rc kernels work fine (my test system is currently
> running 2.4.19-rc3). I'd like to help resolve this issue, but I'm not quite
> sure as to where to start save rolling back all of the apic deltas in the
> -ac patch series.

As Alan has posted, this is a problem with code merged into rc2-ac6 and
after to support the high end IBM xSeries machines.

Its broken and myself and James Cleverdon are actively working the issue.

This is code that exists as a patch for the generic tree and works fine, but
something has gone oddly wrong here, we still havent tracked it down, but
stay tuned... 

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Jack F. Vogel		IBM Linux Technology Center
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