Viestiss� Tiistai 11. Maaliskuuta 2003 16:46, Sascha Noyes kirjoitti: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 03:07, Henri wrote: > > Thanks ! > > Could it be possible that mandrake provides a precompiled kernel without > > apic and detect at intall when the machine is a buggy one ? > > (Of course if only the presario 7xx has the bug, it would be stupid...) > > > > And isn't it possible to use "noapic apci=on" on boot instead of > > recompiling ? > > Well, unfortunately I don't know too much about kernels, but here is what I > have gleaned at the moment: > > It seems to be possible to automatically disable APIC on certain > motherboards. I found this out by checking the changelogs that the mandrake > kernel developers wrote for the last two versions of the kernel: > "- disable local apic in more boards." > I've asked which files store the information on which board gets local apic > disabled, but understandably I did not get a response. I've just checked > with the latest kernel, and booting still does not work with acpi enabled, > which means that the presario 7xx boards do not have local apic disabled. >
take a look at arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c it lists several buggy systems... We need output of dmiscan to add more buggy ones to the list.... Thomas
