Re: Unexpected IO-APIC

randy_dunlap
2005-07-12T16:42:49Z

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:56:03 -0500 Bill Baker wrote:

| Greetings:
|
| I performed a kernel update on a RH9 server and saw this in the dmesg log & during boot. Thought I would notify you per the recommendation.
|
| Message was:
|
| IO APIC #3......
| .... register #00: 03000000
| ....... : physical APIC id: 03
| .... register #01: 00178020
| ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
| ....... : PRQ implemented: 1
| ....... : IO APIC version: 0020
| .... register #02: 00178020
| ....... : arbitration: 00
| An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less than
| three months old please report this to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
|
|
| The box is a Dell PowerEdge 700, using the onboard Ethernet, originally configured 7/04.
| Previous kernel: kernel-smp-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm
| New kernel: kernel-smp-2.4.20-43.9.legacy.i686.rpm
|
| I pulled it off http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/updates/i386/
| We had to build a e1000 generic driver on the original install, as well as for this kernel, if that makes any difference.

Hi,
This was fixed eons ago (maybe 2 years), but in a much later kernel
version than 2.4.20. 2.4.20 is neither new nor less than 3 months old.

Regards,
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~Randy