Re: [patch] SMP fixes 2.2.1

Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:30:47 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Well, my Intel Neptune board with dual P120 doesn't reboot
> > with 2.2, but it did reboot with Linux 2.0 (according to
> > the previous owner).
>
> Ditto mine with a dual P90 - specifically if I say "noapic" it can reboot
> if I let it run APIC mode it cannot. It appears to be a BIOS problem.

I seem to remember a "disabling symmetric mode" message
and several others from the linux-kernel mailing list.

Have the messages been cut from the kernel or do we just
skip that part because "we don't need it on most systems"?

Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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