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From: "Sérgio Monteiro Basto" <sergiomb@netcabo.pt>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Developers <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [BKPATCH] LAPIC fix for 2.6
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:19:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097443183.26647.31.camel@darkstar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0410102000160.4217@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 20:04, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > > Hi Linus, please do a 
> > > 
> > > 	bk pull bk://linux-acpi.bkbits.net/26-latest-release
> > 
> > Ok, this version of the patch suddenly looks like a real bug-fix in that
> > it now makes the command line options "lapic"/"nolapic" a lot more
> > logical.
> 
>  Hmm, any particular reason to keep the local APIC disabled by default?  
> Most BIOS vendors keep it disabled just because it's easier to get stuff
> set up this way -- with the APIC enabled you need to do the same steps to
> program the 8259As as with the APIC disabled, plus program the APIC 
> itself, which provides no gain to BIOS itself or to DOS, so why bother?
> 
>   Maciej
> 

The problem is: trying enable some local apic's (for example on via
mother boards on my laptop), cause many problem, like hang on boot (with
ACPI), hang on Fn-F3 (video switch), power-off fails, etc. and no one
knows how resolved the problem.  
So keep it disable if BIOS vendors say so, can be reasonable idea.

-- 
Sérgio M. B.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-10 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-10 17:35 [BKPATCH] LAPIC fix for 2.6 Len Brown
2004-10-10 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-10 19:04   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-10-10 21:19     ` Sérgio Monteiro Basto [this message]
2004-10-11  1:44       ` [ACPI] " Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-10-11  2:44         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11  0:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-11 11:42       ` [ACPI] " Andi Kleen

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