Re: What was in the x86 merge for .20

Andi Kleen
2006-12-08T17:12:32Z

> My old 4-way Intel Nocona-based SDV panics during boot with "APIC mode must
> be flat on this system" and I don't know how to make it stop. Help.

Hmm, i had these patches for week and didn't change anything. Weird.
>
> It didn't do this with your tree in 2.6.19-rc6-mm1 or 2.6.19-rc6-mm2, both
> of which included
> x86_64-mm-fix-the-irqbalance-quirk-for-e7320-e7520-e7525.patch. It still
> reverts cleanly, so there might be something else in -mm (apart from
> revert-x86_64-mm-fix-the-irqbalance-quirk-for-e7320-e7520-e7525.patch ;))
> which fixes it up.

I'll investigate.

> Also, we weren't supposed to merge that patch at all. It is supposedly
> obsoleted by Ingo's new genapic work.

I decided to skip that because it was still far too fresh and i also
didn't have time yet to review it closely.

-Andi