Re: Cannot compile 2.4.19-pre7 with APIC without IOAPIC

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 05:37:01 EST


Pavel Roskin writes:
> Hello!
>
> I'm getting this error when compiling 2.4.19-pre7:
>
> init/main.o: In function `smp_init':
> init/main.o(.text.init+0x5e1): undefined reference to `skip_ioapic_setup'
> arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o: In function `broken_pirq':
> arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text.init+0x3427): undefined reference to
> `skip_ioapic_setup'
>
> Processor is AMD K7, SMP is disabled, APIC is enabled, IOAPIC is disabled.
>
> It turns out that skip_ioapic_setup is defined in
> arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c, which is only compiled when CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
> is defined, but it's used in init/main.c if SMP is disabled and APIC is
> enabled.

Known problem. Apply the patch below.

/Mikael

--- linux-2.4.19-pre7/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c.~1~ Tue Apr 16 23:33:53 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19-pre7/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c Tue Apr 16 23:34:15 2002
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@
         printk(KERN_INFO " *** If you see IRQ problems, in paticular SCSI resets and hangs at boot\n");
         printk(KERN_INFO " *** contact your hardware vendor and ask about updates.\n");
         printk(KERN_INFO " *** Building an SMP kernel may evade the bug some of the time.\n");
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
         skip_ioapic_setup = 0;
 #endif
         return 0;
--- linux-2.4.19-pre7/init/main.c.~1~ Tue Apr 16 23:33:56 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19-pre7/init/main.c Tue Apr 16 23:34:54 2002
@@ -293,11 +293,9 @@
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
-extern int skip_ioapic_setup;
 static void __init smp_init(void)
 {
- if (!skip_ioapic_setup)
- APIC_init_uniprocessor();
+ APIC_init_uniprocessor();
 }
 #else
 #define smp_init() do { } while (0)
-
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