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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why do so many machines need "noapic"?
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:12:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E59716.6020404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709080717.58271.prakash@punnoor.de>

On 09/08/2007 01:17 AM, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> On the day of Friday 07 September 2007 Chuck Ebbert hast written:
>> On 09/06/2007 07:31 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> writes:
>>>> Some systems lock up without the noapic option.
>>> Please find patterns: cpu type, chipsets, mainboard vendors etc.
>> This is the first one I've actually had in front of me:
>>
>>   HP TX1000 notebook
>>   Nvidia C51/MCP51 mobile chipset
> 
> Do you have a hpet? If not, have you tried using acpi_use_timer_override with 
> apic?

Yes, it has an hpet. And I tried every combination of options I could
think of.

But, even stranger, x86_64 works (only i386 fails.)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-10 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-05 23:30 Why do so many machines need "noapic"? Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-06 11:31 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-07 19:34   ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-08  5:17     ` Prakash Punnoor
2007-09-10 19:12       ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-09-10 19:44         ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-10 23:33           ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-13 16:38           ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-25  9:06             ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-15  7:39   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-15 10:58     ` Ingo Oeser
2007-09-15 11:08       ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-15 12:08         ` Matthew Garrett
2007-09-24 21:32           ` Dave Jones
2007-09-27 22:03             ` Phillip Susi
2007-09-15 18:42     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-08  4:12 Al Boldi

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