Dave Jones wrote:
If memory serves correctly, that was circa 2.6.10, back in these commits..commit a068ea13d1db406e15c346e93530343f6e70184c Author: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun Oct 10 05:21:08 2004 -0400 [ACPI] If BIOS disabled the LAPIC, believe it by default. "lapic" is available to force enabling the LAPIC in the event you know more than your BIOS vendor. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3238 commit 2fcfece90db9643b6f30a7ad343898a2871e6a81 Author: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Oct 9 20:12:45 2004 -0400 [ACPI] Don't enable LAPIC when the BIOS disabled it. Doing so apparently breaks every Dell on Earth. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3238 But those changes relate to the local APIC, which 'noapic' shouldn't have any effect on should it ?
If the LAPIC is disabled, then you CAN'T use the IO-APIC right? So then wouldn't the noapic option have no effects since the apic is already disabled? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
