On 06 Sep 2007 13:31:50 +0200 Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote: > Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> writes: > > > Some systems lock up without the noapic option. > > Please find patterns: cpu type, chipsets, mainboard vendors etc. There are 48 bugs in bugzilla which mention "noapic" http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=noapic&kernel_version_type=allwordssubstr&kernel_version=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=®ression=both&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= And there are 173,000 on the internet ;) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+noapic&btnG=Google+Search We screwed this pooch a long time ago - years. Perhaps if some of the many noapic users could run a bisection search to work out when it broke we could start fixing things. But they all have a workaround so there's no motivation. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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