Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [Oops] apic, smp and k6 | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:52:51 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> while now with an appropriate patch. Now Christoph Hellwig has identifi= > ed a > simpler solution (updated for -test11 by me): > > --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c~ Fri Jul 7 04:42:06 2000 > +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Tue Jul 18 19:22:48 2000 > @@ -785,7 +785,8 @@ > /* > * get boot-time SMP configuration: > */ > - if (smp_found_config) > + if (smp_found_config && /* try only if the cpu has a local apic */ > + test_bit(X86_FEATURE_APIC, boot_cpu_data.x86_capability)) > get_smp_config();
This patch unfortunately does break some real setups, since it is legal to have non APIC on the CPU but an APIC as an addon chip.
> I think Alan has a similar thing in his test11-ac* series.
Maciej Rozycki provided a much better test, that from reports so far seems to be working
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