Re: [thomas_cj_chang@wistron.com.tw: Kernel 2.4.28 can't boot intoOS without noapic]

[Len Brown]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:27, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I'm forwarding your message to Mikael and Len, who have knowledge
> on the IOAPIC infrastructure.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from thomas_cj_chang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----
> 
> From: thomas_cj_chang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:37:03 +0800
> To: marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Kernel 2.4.28 can't boot into OS without noapic
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry to interrupt you. I'm BIOS engineer from Taiwan. I found an
> kernel IO-APIC bug in my current project...

Thomas,
Is this specific to 2.4, or does 2.6 fail also?
Is this specific to MPS mode, or does ACPI mode fail also?

If this is a publically available platform, can you identify it so maybe
we can corrolate this with other reports?

thanks,
-Len


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