On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> In principle ACPI shouldn't be needed, but in its absence the > BIOS must provide an MP table and the x86-64 kernel must still > have code to parse it -- otherwise I/O APIC mode won't work. > I don't know if that's the case or not. Thanks. What I meant is that I thought distributions are enabling ACPI by default because the mptable is likely to be broken. > I suggest you boot normally (with ACPI fully enabled) and send a > bug report to LKML and the ACPI list with the interrupt routing > info from the kernel log. I entered a bug report under ACPI on the kernel bugzilla: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4442 containing the relevant information. It looks like booting with 'noapic' on the command line will be an acceptable workaround for now. Thanks, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/