[ sorry for initially posting this to the wrong list. I'll include the
syslog output in a separate message ]
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > APIC error
> > Interrupt accept error
> > APIC ESR0: 00000004
> > APIC ESR1: 00000004
> >
> > (repeated over and over)
> >
> > The stock 2.2.12 SMP kernel shipped with RedHat 6.1 boots fine.
>
> 2.2 doesn't report this error. it's not clear to me whether the
> kernel's apic code is sane, since many people report apic problems
> on systems that seem to be sane. (historically, these errors are
> the bane of BP6 systems, which are additionally usually overclocked;
What exactly is BP6 systems? Please enlighten me.
> however, the errors _do_ occur on non-BP6 systems, including "legit"
> SMP boxes.)
>
> you can pretty much eliminate the problem by booting with "noapic".
Sorry, tried that; same problem.
After looking at Documentation/IO-APIC.txt, it really doesn't seem to have
a huge impact if I managed to disable the enhanced interrupt controller
(since, of course, there's currently only 1 CPU on the board).
Are you sure "noapic" is the correct parameter to append to the kernel?
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