On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 12:07:35PM -0500, Edward Schernau wrote:
> what does this do?

>From  /usr/src/linux/Documentation/IO-APIC.txt:

"Most (all) Intel SMP boards have the so-called 'IO-APIC', which is an
enhanced interrupt controller, able to route hardware interrupts to
multiple CPUs, or to CPU groups. ..."

'noapic' forces linux back to non-smp interrupts.

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