Re: Cannot enable APIC with 2.6.2

Robert Hancock
2004-02-18T02:11:46Z

It is not strictly related to ACPI, but many newer systems that support APIC
(and, for Pentium 4 machines, HyperThreading as well) don't export any
"old-style" MP tables that describe the IO APIC (or the HT CPU siblings),
and these can only be detected through ACPI.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tetsuji Rai" <tetsuji_rai@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel
To: "Mikael Pettersson" <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: Cannot enable APIC with 2.6.2

> Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > ...
> > > # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
> > > #
> > > # CONFIG_ACPI is not set
> >
> > ACPI is disabled. Enable it and try again.
>
> Thank you! I didn't know APIC is related to ACPI.
>
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