From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" Subject: Re: SMP "unexpected IO-APIC" Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:12:19 -0700 Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200204151612.g3FGCJp06320@bach.leonora.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.8) Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:05:12 BST." List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alan Cox Cc: u.milde@gdsys.de, linux-smp@vger.kernel.org The fix for this is to turn off MPS 1.4 support in your BIOS (i.e. downgrade to MPS 1.1). There is no need to set "noapic". --- Vladimir -------- Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. vladimir@acm.org Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014 "AC" == Alan Cox writes: >> The system is a Asus CUV4X-D motherboard with VIA Apollo Pro 133A >> chipset. The CPUs are two identical Pentium III Coppermine stepping 06. AC> What BIOS version do you have ? I've seen several reports of BIOS updates AC> being needed. Specifying "noapic" might also help AC> - AC> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in AC> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org AC> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html