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Dave Jones wrote: > If memory serves correctly, that was circa 2.6.10, back in these commits.. > > commit a068ea13d1db406e15c346e93530343f6e70184c > Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> > Date: Sun Oct 10 05:21:08 2004 -0400 > > [ACPI] If BIOS disabled the LAPIC, believe it by default. > "lapic" is available to force enabling the LAPIC > in the event you know more than your BIOS vendor. > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3238 > > commit 2fcfece90db9643b6f30a7ad343898a2871e6a81 > Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> > Date: Sat Oct 9 20:12:45 2004 -0400 > > [ACPI] Don't enable LAPIC when the BIOS disabled it. > Doing so apparently breaks every Dell on Earth. > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3238 > > > But those changes relate to the local APIC, which 'noapic' shouldn't > have any effect on should it ? If the LAPIC is disabled, then you CAN'T use the IO-APIC right? So then wouldn't the noapic option have no effects since the apic is already disabled? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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