What does this mean?

What does this mean?

[Michael Rosenthal]

Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2
... ok.
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: Setting 3 in the phys_id_present_map
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 3
... ok.
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: Setting 4 in the phys_id_present_map
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 4
... ok.
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: Setting 5 in the phys_id_present_map
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 5
... ok.
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: Setting 8 in the phys_id_present_map
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 8
... ok.
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel: testing the IO
APIC.......................
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel:
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel:  WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel:           to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise kernel:
Oct 27 17:01:55 enterprise last message repeated 3 times

What other information do you need?

Thanks,

- Mike

What does this mean?

[Eric R. Benoit]

I saw this message in my logs, can you point me in the right direction to what
it means?
Thank You in advance,
Eric

WARNING: MP table in the EBDA can be UNSAFE, contact linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
if you experience SMP problems!

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Re: What does this mean?

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 18:04, Eric R. Benoit wrote:
> I saw this message in my logs, can you point me in the right direction to what
> it means?
> Thank You in advance,
> Eric
> 
> WARNING: MP table in the EBDA can be UNSAFE, contact linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
> if you experience SMP problems!

Its a message we really need to drop. Very old kernel loaders used to
sometimes stomp the MP table. That was fixed about three years ago .
maybe four.