Re: Why do so many machines need "noapic"?

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 09/08/2007 01:17 AM, Prakash Punnoor wrote:
> On the day of Friday 07 September 2007 Chuck Ebbert hast written:
>> On 09/06/2007 07:31 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> Some systems lock up without the noapic option.
>>> Please find patterns: cpu type, chipsets, mainboard vendors etc.
>> This is the first one I've actually had in front of me:
>>
>>   HP TX1000 notebook
>>   Nvidia C51/MCP51 mobile chipset
> 
> Do you have a hpet? If not, have you tried using acpi_use_timer_override with 
> apic?

Yes, it has an hpet. And I tried every combination of options I could
think of.

But, even stranger, x86_64 works (only i386 fails.)
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