From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:11:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:11:45 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:57356 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:11:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3DD44B4E.3030102@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:18:06 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Christian Guggenberger , rl@hellgate.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mikael Pettersson , mingo@redhat.com Subject: Re: Yet another IO-APIC problem (was Re: via-rhine weirdness with viakt8235 Southbridge) References: <20021115002822.G6981@pc9391.uni-regensburg.de> <20021115011738.D17058@pc9391.uni-regensburg.de> <3DD445EF.9080002@pobox.com> <3DD4481F.72627800@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20021115002822.G6981@pc9391.uni-regensburg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >... > >IMO we should just take out UP IOAPIC support in the kernel, or put a > >big fat warning in the kernel config _and_ at boot... > > > > > It would be nice to get it working, because oprofile needs it. > > (Well, oprofile can use the rtc, but then it doesn't profile > ints-off code) I don't see it happening, when uniprocessor mobo vendors (a) don't wire it up, or (b) put buggy data in their MP tables... :( Jeff