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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 12:23:25 +0200
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> (still wants to know what we did 2-3 years ago which caused thousands of
> people to have to resort to using noapic and other apic-related boot option
> workarounds)

Forcing APIC even when the BIOS didn't support them.

-Andi