Re: Is Local APIC work with Athlon?

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Date: Sun Jan 27 2002 - 03:17:58 EST


On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:48:00 +0800 (CST), Ka Fai Lau wrote:
>I am using ECS K7VZA (KT133a chipset) and Athlon. I
>complied my 2.4.17 kernel with Local APIC support. How
>do I know is it working or not? I have to use the
>performance counter and local timer interrupt feature.

All K7s except the very first model (K7 model 1) work, unless
your BIOS is broken. Since you have a VIA chipset, you may see
spurious IRQ7/ERR interrupts. We don't quite know why, but it's
not fatal. Disabling LPT support in the BIOS _may_ help.

/Mikael
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