Re: PCI MSI breaks when booting with nosmp

[Pavel Machek]

On Mon 2008-04-21 20:45:05, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > Ok, I see this too on my desktop machine.  It looks like we're not getting 
> > interrupts setup correctly in the nosmp case.  Still digging through to see 
> > why though...
> 
> NoSMP disables the io-apic and a lot of modern systems don't work
> without APIC.

Are you sure? I still boot DOS on very recent boxes, and they seem to
work. How can PC-compatible machine require an APIC?
								Pavel
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