Re: 4.8.2 not booting in 32-bit VM without I/O-APIC

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Michal Necasek wrote: 

> I suspect that either init_apic_mappings() needs to be called earlier or
> the initial fix from commit 2a51fe08 needs to be done later.

Linus tree has a fix for this:

ff8560512b8d x86/boot/smp: Don't try to poke disabled/non-existent APIC

It's on the way to stable as well. Can you try whether that works for you?

Thanks,

	tglx