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

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Oct 28 2016 - 15:02:46 EST


On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Michal Necasek wrote:
>
> Sorry if I wasn't clear. No, it doesn't work for us. The ff8560512b8d
> commit fixes the APIC poking on machines where there is no local APIC
> available (and thus fixes the committer's machine), but it doesn't work
> in our case, where there is a local APIC but no I/O APIC, no ACPI MADT,
> and no MP tables.

> In other words, for us boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_APIC) is true but the
> APIC has not been set up yet because init_apic_mappings() hasn't been
> run.

Gah. Sorry, misunderstood you. Lemme stare in the code.

Thanks,

tglx