Re: [PATCH 11/15] x86: move enabling of io_apic to prepare_cpus

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Mon Jun 09 2008 - 17:01:49 EST


On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> we need clear_IO_APIC before enable setup error vector, in case there
> is wrong setting in ioapic by BIOS...

Fair enough, although it is still interesting why it would only trigger
in the 64-bit mode and why shouldn't the BIOS be fixed instead.

Maciej
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