On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > In looking through the i810 docs, it appears to me that the chipset
> > > provides an APIC even for uniprocessor configurations.
> >
> > working on it :)
>
> last time i tried booting a uniprocessor machine with APIC enabled,
> which was around 2.1.107 or so, any process which tried to touch the
> network became a zombie. this was on a gigabyte dual-pentium board
> with a single pentium on it.
booting the x86 SMP kernel on a one-CPU SMP box should work just fine
under 2.3.40 + smp-C3, if it doesnt then it's a bug and i'd like to know
about it. But what we are talking about is another case: having a UP
kernel with APIC and IOAPIC support in it.
Ingo
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