From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bas Mevissen Subject: Re: ACPI disappears silently if !CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:02:29 +0200 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <3F40A435.6000306@basmevissen.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Brown, Len" Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01