Re: [RFC] x86: Cleanup prose of Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt

[Ingo Molnar]

* Nick Andrew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:46:03AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Nick Andrew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I wouldn't know that, but I still have to use 'noapic' to get my AMD 
> > > box to boot :-(
> > 
> > oh. If "noapic" is still necessary with x86/latest:
> > 
> >   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README
> 
> Thanks; I'll retest on latest then. I didn't realise the problem was 
> fixed.

just to make sure: nothing _specific_ was done in this area, this is 
just to make sure we'll both deal with the same codebase. But in 
general, if a box needs "noapic", that signals a bug we should try to 
solve in the kernel automatically (even if it's BIOS inflicted damage).

	Ingo
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