Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:44:54 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: NMI watchdog question. |
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On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> By any chance, does this implementation imply that if I boot SMP with > 'noapic' the NMI watchdog won't work? It doesn't, but I am not sure I had > it on before I turned off the APIC. > > Clearly this would be desirable to work, as noapic is needed on a fairly > large minority of machines.
You're not using IO-APIC interrupt handling therefore you can't use it to deliver to the Local-APIC unit. You're out of luck, just use Local-APIC NMI watchdog.
Zwane
PS first time i've heard 'fairly large minority' ;)
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