Re: APIC errors w/ 2.4.0-test11-pre2

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011101523170.14596-100000@bochum.redhat.de>
By author:    Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi,
> after booting a 2.4.0 (any testx-release I've tried so far, including
> test11-pre2) on a Dual-Pentium III box, the system works ok, but the
> console gets filled with
> 
> APIC error on CPU0: 08(08)
> 
> every couple of seconds, occasionally some lines in between say
> 
> APIC error on CPU0: 08(02)
> 
> and
> 
> APIC error on CPU0: 02(08)
> 
> This doesn't happen with 2.2.x, but I've seen "unexpected IRQ vector 208
> on CPU0" in 2.2.18 occasionally (nowhere near as often, maybe once a
> month).
> 
> This is an ASUS P2-D board (Intel 440BX chipset), 2 Pentium III-700
> processors.
> 
> The same kernel works perfectly on a similar (but slower) system, Gigabyte
> P2B-D board (Intel 440BX chipset), 2 Pentium III-450 processors.
> 

I have seen the same problem on the same motherboard.  It appears to
be a motherboard bug that 2.4 exposes and 2.2 doesn't.

	-hpa


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