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    SubjectRe: [RFC] Fix NMI watchdog documentation
    On Sun, 25 May 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

    > On Sat, 24 May 2003 23:36:26 EDT, Zwane Mwaikambo said:
    >
    > > > Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.
    >
    > > It's known broken with that configuration and hence blacklisted.
    >
    > Yes, I know it's blacklisted. The question I intended to ask was "Is the
    > entire concept of IOAPIC irretrievably scrozzled on this machine, or is there
    > sufficient minimum functionality to get nmi_watchdog working?"

    You don't have an IOAPIC at all, but the Local APIC has been known to
    cause problems. So forget about nmi_watchdog.

    Zwane
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