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* Is Local APIC work with Athlon?
@ 2002-01-27  3:48 Ka Fai Lau
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From: Ka Fai Lau @ 2002-01-27  3:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

I am using ECS K7VZA (KT133a chipset) and Athlon. I
complied my 2.4.17 kernel with Local APIC support. How
do I know is it working or not? I have to use the
performance counter and local timer interrupt feature.

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* Re: Is Local APIC work with Athlon?
@ 2002-01-27  8:17 Mikael Pettersson
  2002-01-27 23:01 ` Trever L. Adams
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From: Mikael Pettersson @ 2002-01-27  8:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: byzantinehk; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:48:00 +0800 (CST), Ka Fai Lau wrote:
>I am using ECS K7VZA (KT133a chipset) and Athlon. I
>complied my 2.4.17 kernel with Local APIC support. How
>do I know is it working or not? I have to use the
>performance counter and local timer interrupt feature.

All K7s except the very first model (K7 model 1) work, unless
your BIOS is broken. Since you have a VIA chipset, you may see
spurious IRQ7/ERR interrupts. We don't quite know why, but it's
not fatal. Disabling LPT support in the BIOS _may_ help.

/Mikael

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* Re: Is Local APIC work with Athlon?
  2002-01-27  8:17 Is Local APIC work with Athlon? Mikael Pettersson
@ 2002-01-27 23:01 ` Trever L. Adams
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Trever L. Adams @ 2002-01-27 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mikael Pettersson; +Cc: byzantinehk, Linux Kernel Mailing List

On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 03:17, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:48:00 +0800 (CST), Ka Fai Lau wrote:
> >I am using ECS K7VZA (KT133a chipset) and Athlon. I
> >complied my 2.4.17 kernel with Local APIC support. How
> >do I know is it working or not? I have to use the
> >performance counter and local timer interrupt feature.
> 
> All K7s except the very first model (K7 model 1) work, unless
> your BIOS is broken. Since you have a VIA chipset, you may see
> spurious IRQ7/ERR interrupts. We don't quite know why, but it's
> not fatal. Disabling LPT support in the BIOS _may_ help.
> 
> /Mikael

This is not ENTIRELY true.  Certain hangs and crashes can be caused with
X, APM, and APIC enabled.  I haven't entirely tracked it down yet, but I
have seen it on a Thuderbird 800 (FIC SD11), an Soyo Dragon Plus (1800+
XP), and a few others.  It goes away if you turn Local APIC's off.  This
may be related to some video card issues, but I don't yet know.

Trever Adams


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