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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Unexpected IO-APIC
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:38:05 -0800
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:07:21 -0600 Lyle Worthington wrote:

| I am running RedHat 7.3 on a dual P4 3.2G Xeons with 6G RAM and linux 
| kernel 2.4.18-19.7.xbigmem.  This sytem is the only one report this 
| IO-APIC issue and has crashed 4 times in the past 6 days.  I have searched 
| all over the web trying to find replies to messages people have sent in 
| regarding this issue but have found none so I am emailing hoping you can 
| help.  Here is the output from dmesg, let me know if you need any more 
| information:
| 
| IO APIC #2......
| .... register #00: 02008000
| .......    : physical APIC id: 02
|   WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
|            to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
| .... register #01: 00178020
| .......     : max redirection entries: 0017
| .......     : PRQ implemented: 1
| .......     : IO APIC version: 0020
| .... register #02: 00000000
| .......     : arbitration: 00
| .... IRQ redirection table:

Hi,
The problems that you are seeing aren't likely to have anything to do
with the unexpected IO-APIC warning message.  In fact, that message
has been removed in the 2.6.x kernels.

Is there a more recent kernel that you can use?  Just wondering since
I don't know about RH updates.

--
~Randy