Re: PCI MSI breaks when booting with nosmp

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Andi,

Le lundi 21 avril 2008, Andi Kleen a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> If you just want to run with a single cpu for testing etc. always use maxcpus=1 
> (not 0, that will disable the APIC too)

In my case, booting with noapic works fine, so I don't think that the problem
is related to APIC being disabled.

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3
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