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SubjectRe: [RFC] x86: Cleanup prose of Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt

* Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:46:03AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> wrote:
> > > I wouldn't know that, but I still have to use 'noapic' to get my AMD
> > > box to boot :-(
> >
> > oh. If "noapic" is still necessary with x86/latest:
> >
> > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README
>
> Thanks; I'll retest on latest then. I didn't realise the problem was
> fixed.

just to make sure: nothing _specific_ was done in this area, this is
just to make sure we'll both deal with the same codebase. But in
general, if a box needs "noapic", that signals a bug we should try to
solve in the kernel automatically (even if it's BIOS inflicted damage).

Ingo


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