From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UP IO-APIC
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:33:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020925143354.GF1102@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020924191934.B2453@redhat.com>
On 2002-09-24T19:19:34,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> said:
> > >APIC makes perfect sense albeit rare. Single processor IO APICs are very
> > >rare and are usually MP systems with only one processor.
> > I think most AMD Athlon boards have an IO APIC
> I'd love to have it enabled in a distro kernel, but as Arjan pointed out, it
> currently breaks some laptops if enabled.
Well, _not_ enabling IO-APIC on UP breaks my Athlon / KT333 at home; random
freezes are the result, so I prefer to enable it...
So whichever default is chosen, someone is burned. I hate hardware.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
--
Principal Squirrel
Research and Development, SuSE Linux AG
``Immortality is an adequate definition of high availability for me.''
--- Gregory F. Pfister
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-25 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-23 18:22 UP IO-APIC Ricky Beam
2002-09-23 19:50 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-09-24 7:32 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-24 15:30 ` Ricky Beam
2002-09-24 18:01 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-09-24 23:19 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-25 14:33 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2002-09-24 18:04 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-09-24 18:34 ` Bob_Tracy
2002-09-24 21:05 ` Bill Davidsen
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