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SubjectRe: [patch] SMP fixes 2.2.1
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 08:23:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Well, my Intel Neptune board with dual P120 doesn't reboot
> > with 2.2, but it did reboot with Linux 2.0 (according to
> > the previous owner).
>
> Ditto mine with a dual P90 - specifically if I say "noapic" it can reboot
> if I let it run APIC mode it cannot. It appears to be a BIOS problem.

We had the same problem with some IBM Intellistations we are using here
for our compute farm. Sending 1 machine back to IBM resulted in a BIOS
patch, and the statement that it was a kernel problem. They claimed that
some registers were being left with 'crap' in them resulting in an incomplete
reboot. I still have the name of the engineer at IBM if anyone is interested
in talking to him.

Tim

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