On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:10:03 +0100
Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Kernel started with noapic option, cause it hands on load without this option.
> >
> > Him and a million other people. I know we broke APIC. Around 2.6.9, I
> > think.
>
>
> is that when the "enable apic even on UP so that distro kernels can
> install on the ibm x44*" patches went in?
>
I don't know. In fact I forget how I worked out that it worsened in
2.6.early.
google(noapic) gets 232,000 hits.
I don't think it really matters when or why it happened. If we take the
approach of fixing one machine at a time, we'll only need to fix a few
individual machines to improve the situation for a lot of people.
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