On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:19:00 +0100 (MET),
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> wrote:
> The "noapic" option should probably get removed -- it was meant as a
>debugging aid (as many of the "no*" options) at the early days of I/O APIC
>support, I believe... Now the support is pretty stable.
Intel 440GX chipsets hang during SCSI probe with UP kernels unless you
use noapic. It works with SMP but many installers use UP kernels.
Removing noapic will break install on all 440GX machines, there are a
lot of them out there.
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