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From: Matthias Kleine <kleine_matthias@gmx.de>
To: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is "noapic" with some Dual P3 boards necessary?
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:42:54 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210301950.49150.kleine_matthias@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210291703.g9TH3Np26310@bach.leonora.org>

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 18:03, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> It is not necessary to boot a CUV4X-DLS board with the "noapic" option.
>
> I have been running a CUV4X-DLS board (== CUV4X-D + LAN + SCSI) for over
> a year now with APIC. You must however fall back to MPS 1.1 from the
> default MPS 1.4. (It's a BIOS setting.)
>
> I suspect that a CUV4X-D board will have the same behavior.

Without noapic as kernel option

- my eth0 and ippp0 devices do not work
- my NVIDIA driver does not work

With noapic (no other changes) everything works quite
fine. I think you need a _very strong_ reason to convince
me that noapic is not necessary with the CUV4X-D.
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-29 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-27 11:08 Why is "noapic" with some Dual P3 boards necessary? Matthias Kleine
2002-10-27 11:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-29 17:03 ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic
2002-10-29 18:42   ` Matthias Kleine [this message]
2002-10-29 18:50     ` Dr. Michael Weller
2002-10-30 19:20       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-30 22:11         ` Matthias Kleine
2002-10-30 23:48           ` Alan Cox
2002-10-31  2:54         ` vladimir
2002-10-31  3:27           ` Eff Norwood
2002-11-02 19:18             ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic
2002-10-31 20:29           ` Bill Davidsen

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