Re: 2.6.9-rc4 No local APIC present or hardware disabled

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-10-14 at 23:27, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> +			printk("Not enabling local APIC "
> +			       "because of frequent BIOS bugs\n");
> +			printk("You can enable it with \"lapic\"\n");
> +			return -1;
> +		}

Looks completely wrong to me. The BIOS disabled it or left it disabled
because they chose not to support it. We enabled it and then relied on
bios functionality.

Our bug

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