James Cornell wrote: > Leif Haldorsen wrote: >> Hi folks >> I'm getting the following error messages when booting Solaris 5.11 (v74) to >> both 32bit and 64bit version: >> APIC Error interupt on CPU 0. Status 0 = 0, Status 1 = 40. >> sometimes 1 error line, other times up to 4 error lines. >> >> Do anybody have a clue? >> My self, I do not have a clue about it, and can not find any information >> about it either. The BIOS does not have the options see or to make changes >> to any thing else than boot sequence and other not so important things. >> >> Can I assume that my laptop will be well behaved when running with these >> errors? >> I'm worried about possible implications form this error. >> >> As an example - when i used NDIS v1.1 to make and set up my built inn >> wireless (broadcom 4318), i first did this from 64 bit mode but this >> resulted in a panic crash after reboot when coming to the point where the >> GUI should start.
NDIS1.1 can not support bcm4318 in 64bit mode, but 32bit mode. This issue has nothing to do with APIC. - Michael Thereafter I made a 32bit boot and installed the 32bit drivers from this mode. This worked fine, so i continued with the project and at the end i ended up with the solution of only to copy the 64bit drivers to their locations without making use of add_drv for the 64bit drivers. this did the trick and everything seems to work fine. >> >> >> I'm running on ASUS A6 notebook. AMD Turion 64 bit. 1.5 Gb RAM. >> >> best regards >> lehaldor >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > APIC - Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (Currently used) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programmable_Interrupt_Controller > > PIC - (Older legacy method) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_Interrupt_Controller > > Basically it's related to context switching, changing the execution > state of hardware for multitasking and symmetric multi-processing operation. > > This is probably one of the most common errors you'll find that isn't > due to negligence on the developer's behalf. I get this on my Ultra-20 > with some operating systems, and some kernel versions. (BSD or Linux in > this case, Solaris has no issues) Disabling SMP by passing a kernel > parameter will almost always fix the issue but this is a workaround, the > only way to get it fixed is wait, or do it yourself. Some motherboards > have flaky APIC's. (Southbridge chipset) You wont have dual-core > functionality if you disable APIC. > > Check the BIOS for an option to disable APIC. or remap the resources > manually if you can figure out which interrupt is causing it, and it > might solve the issue. > > James > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
