Re: IO-APIC in SMP dual Athlon XP1800

[kwijibo@zianet.com]

Well I'll probably tell you what just about everyone else here will.
If you use XP procs on a MP system you are on your own.  If you
lucky they will work, if you aren't they won't.  It appears that you
are not lucky.  

Steve

Scorpion wrote:

>Hi follows,
>I'm getting in troubles with a A7M266-D motherboard with two
>Athlon XP 1800 cpus (yes, XP not MP!).
>Following the screen shot of my problem:
>^-------cut here---------^
>EIP:    0010:[<c0111686>]    Not tainted
>EFLAGS: 00011046
><4>CPU:    1
><4>CPU:    1
>EIP:    0010:[<c0111686>]    Not tainted
>EFLAGS:  00011046
> `u!wisuu`m aeesess 7eg111eg
> printing eip:
> printing eip:
>*pde = 11111010
>Stuck ??
>CPU #1 not responding - cannot use it.
>Error: only one processor found.
>ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
>Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map
>...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
>init IO_APIC IRQs
> IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-10, 2-11, 2-12, 2-13, 2-16, 2-17, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 
>2-23 not connected.
>..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
>^-----cut here-----^
>
>After spend some times put printk's in kernel source like "Reach this point!"
>I was trying disable IO_APIC in .config file but some link erros ocurred. 
>Has any way to turn IO_APIC disable? Or its extreme necessary?
>
>Thanks,
>Ricardo.
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