Re: unexpected IO-APIC

Randy.Dunlap
2002-04-08T14:46:28Z

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Paul Hemstock wrote:

| Hi. this is the dmesg from a smp server we have recently commissioned.
|
| an excerpt:
| ==============================================
|
| number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
| testing the IO APIC.......................
|
| IO APIC #2......
| .... register #00: 02000000
| ....... : physical APIC id: 02
| .... register #01: 00178011
| ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
| ....... : IO APIC version: 0011
| WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
| to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
| .... register #02: 00000000
| ....... : arbitration: 00
|
| ==============================================
|
| is there anything that can be quickly be done about this ?

Linux problem reports should include the kernel version number.
However, I can deduce that the kernel version is < 2.4.16 or
thereabouts, since this was fixed around 2.4.16 or 2.4.17.
Upgrade to 2.4.18 and the message will go away...
or just ignore it -- it's not hurting anything.

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bah.

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~Randy