Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 May 2003 19:23:33 -0400 (EDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: local apic timer ints not working with vmware: nolocalapic |
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On Fri, 30 May 2003, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 13:42:13 -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > > I submitted a patch for nolapic before... > > Did you get any response as to whether it was going to be accepted into > the kernel or not?
Considering the dalay, i'll resend and give it another go, but generally it means it's not going anywhere.
> The unfortunate thing is that even this sort of fix will not help my > situation. The reason being (which I only discovered by accident when I > set "dont_enable_local_apic = 1" rather than "dont_use_local_apic_timer" > and it didn't correct the booting problem) is that it seems that even if > the local apic is set disabled by setting dont_enable_local_apic = 1 in > arch/i386/kernel/apic.c, setup_APIC_clocks() is still called.
How did you determine that? printks? Was this with my patch applied? I originally did this patch for the exact same problem (buggy local APIC implimentation).
(much snipped) Linux version 2.5.70-mm1 (zwane@montezuma.mastecende.com) (gcc version Kernel command line: nolapic nmi_watchdog=2 ro root=/dev/hda1 profile=2 debug console=tty0 cons0 kernel profiling enabled Initializing CPU#0 CPU0: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 365.65 usecs. task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs. SMP motherboard not detected. Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. Starting migration thread for cpu 0
> So the jist is that using the local apic timer feature is not dependent on > using the local apic, as per the dont_enable_local_apic and > dont_use_local_apic_timer flags in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c. Maybe this is > wrong, I dunno unfortunately. > > I don't know anything about this APIC stuff so I don't know if that is > correct or not, but it is what happens. > > Thanx for the input though, much appreciated,
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