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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: x2apic boot failure on recent sandy bridge system
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* Berck E. Nash <flyboy@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/12/2011 10:13 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > please check -v7.
> 
> Works just fine for me.

That's interesting.

Now if this could be made completely automatic (no extra 
parameter passing), then we have a usable fallback mode - which 
is preferred to crashing the box.

Thanks,

	Ingo