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From: Bas Mevissen <ml-Y9IUUvl1dgU0Iwp8Nzs06g@public.gmane.org>
To: "Brown, Len" <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: ACPI disappears silently if !CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:02:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F40A435.6000306@basmevissen.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BF1FE1855350A0479097B3A0D2A80EE009FC5B-N2PTB0HCzHJF3Yvz3xaN/VDQ4js95KgL@public.gmane.org>

Brown, Len wrote:

> Ps.
> Does your laptop really have no LAPIC, or you just prefer to not use
> LAPIC?
> Note that even if the system has no IOAPIC, the LAPIC is used for timer
> interrupts.  On a laptop w/o IOAPIC, you'd see this in the boot
> messages:
> 

Is it a problem to have the local APIC support not compiled into the kernel?

What if the kernel refuses to enable local APIC because of a a broken 
BIOS report (or something like that, forgot the exact message). It that 
fixable with the DSDT or something else?

Regards,

Bas.





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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-18 10:02 UTC|newest]

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2003-08-15 17:40 ACPI disappears silently if !CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC Brown, Len
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2003-08-18 10:02   ` Bas Mevissen [this message]
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2003-08-15 17:49 Brown, Len
2003-08-15 15:34 Dominik Brodowski

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