Re: UP local APIC is deadly on SMP Athlon

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 19:12:48 EST


Ion Badulescu wrote:
> A UP kernel compiled with CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y dies a very horrible
> death on an SMP Athlon motherboard (Tyan S2462 and S2468), flooding the
> console with the following messages:

IMO just assume this option is just broken, unless you absolutely need it.

Red Hat ships UP kernels with this option disabled, because either the
code, the BIOS, or both are typically broken.

        Jeff

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