Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:19:00 +0000 (GMT) | From | Mark Cooke <> | Subject | Re: Idiot-proof APIC? |
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:07:47PM +0100, Allan Sandfeld wrote: > > Hi, I just want to share some of my stupidity and my experience with it with > > you. > > I recently had the misfortune to try to put two celerons on an SMP-board. The > > bios correctly ignored the second cpu, but the linux-kernel(2.4.17). Would > > boot almost normally then emit two APIC-errors to the console(error 2 and > > 6?), and shortly after freeze completely.
<snip> > > Actually, with the correct adapters, celerons can be made SMP safe. > > I would immagine that it is hard to detect if there is a adapter operating > correctly from the APIC code...
Only have to agree with Mike here. I made the hardware mod to two slot-A celerons and haven't had any trouble at all from the machine.
If this is 'fixed', hopefully a command-line override will be added!
Mark
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