Re: Working UP IOAPIC ?

John Stoffel (stoffel@lucent.com)
Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:48:39 -0400


>>>>> "Jurriaan" == Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> writes:

Jurriaan> From: Josh Litherland <josh@temp123.org>
Jurriaan> Date: Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:32:31PM -0500
>> Are there any mainboards for AMD Thoroughbred core on which the UP
>> IOAPIC works with Linux? I've tried several, all have had floods of
>> APIC error (02) and (00), and I understand from previous postings that
>> this indicates my APIC bus is buggy.
>>

Jurriaan> My Epox 8K9A3+ works perfectly with it's APIC, as long as I
Jurriaan> don't use ACPI, that is. I'm using a XP2400, this board has
Jurriaan> a VIA KT400 chipset.

Thanks for the hint! I turned off ACPI on my Dell SMP box and now I
can run UP with APIC turned on. Just now re-compiling to have IO-APIC
on UP as a test, then on to SMP mode testing.

John
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