Re: [RFC] Fix NMI watchdog documentation

[Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linuxpower.ca)]

On Sun, 25 May 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2003 23:36:26 EDT, Zwane Mwaikambo said:
> 
> > > Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.
> 
> > It's known broken with that configuration and hence blacklisted.
> 
> Yes, I know it's blacklisted.  The question I intended to ask was "Is the
> entire concept of IOAPIC irretrievably scrozzled on this machine, or is there
> sufficient minimum functionality to get nmi_watchdog working?"

You don't have an IOAPIC at all, but the Local APIC has been known to 
cause problems. So forget about nmi_watchdog.

	Zwane
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