Re: [RFC] Fix NMI watchdog documentation

[Valdis . Kletnieks (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)]

On Sat, 24 May 2003 15:11:06 EDT, Zwane Mwaikambo said:

> Forgot this bit;
> 
> w/ CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y you only have nmi_watchdog=2
> 
> w/ CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y you have nmi_watchdog=1 and 2
> 
> w/ CONFIG_SMP you have nmi_watchdog=1 and 2 as it depends on 
> CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC

% grep APIC /usr/src/linux-2.5.69/.config
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y

but 'dmesg' on my Dell Latitude C840 laptop tells me:

Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.

Is this nmi_watchdog="forget about it dave" time, or is there some way to
get this to work?

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