[PATCH][2.6] Recommend 'noapic' when timer via IOAPIC fails

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

We might as well recommend the user boot with the noapic kernel parameter
instead of filling poor Ingo's mailbox.

Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 io_apic.c
--- linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c	20 Jul 2004 18:14:54 -0000	1.1.1.1
+++ linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c	27 Jul 2004 07:23:38 -0000
@@ -2212,7 +2212,7 @@ static inline void check_timer(void)
 		return;
 	}
 	printk(" failed :(.\n");
-	panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! pester mingo@xxxxxxxxxx");
+	panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter\n");
 }

 /*
Index: linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 io_apic.c
--- linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c	20 Jul 2004 18:15:04 -0000	1.1.1.1
+++ linux-2.6.8-rc2/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c	27 Jul 2004 07:23:55 -0000
@@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ static inline void check_timer(void)
 		return;
 	}
 	printk(" failed :(.\n");
-	panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! pester mingo@xxxxxxxxxx");
+	panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter\n");
 }

 /*
-
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