Re: [PATCH -v8] x86: Disable x2apic if nox2apic is specified orintr-remap can not be enabled

From: Suresh Siddha
Date: Tue Dec 20 2011 - 01:54:38 EST


On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 18:07 -0800, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> b. for nox2apic, as you try to disable x2apic even if the bios has
> enabled it along with interrupt-remapping, this will probably not work
> unless we disable interrupt-remapping.

Looking at the code, this condition should be handled correctly by the
OS by enabling interrupt-remapping in non extended interrupt-mode. So
this case should be ok.

thanks,
suresh

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