Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:56:27 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [regression] 3.7 ends in APIC panic |
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On 12/17/2012 08:53 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: >> >> I suspect this needs to be fixed/improved: currently it's way >> too easy to disable x2apic support accidentally. >> > > We can just enable x2apic by default when CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set. >
Yes, although we should expect to have to blacklist hosts more aggressively.
Unfortunately we still don't have a good distinction between the ThinkPads that have broken BIOSes when x2apic is on and those that don't.
-hpa
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