Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:38:09 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] leave APIC code inactive by default on i386 |
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:10:26PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > The number of systems that actually *need* APIC enabled are in the > > vast (though growing) minority, so it's unlikely that most newbies > > will hit this. The problem is also the inverse of what you describe. > > Typically the distros have DMI lists of machines that *need* APIC > > to make it enabled by default so everything 'just works'. > > Ok, even more reason for it to go in. Someone might want to let the folks at > Ubuntu know too, they seem to have it enabled in their installer kernel. :D
Last I looked they picked up the same patch we were carrying in Fedora.
Dave
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