Re: 2.4.10aa1 (00_vm-tweaks-1)

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:36:08PM +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> In article <[e-mail]> you wrote:
> 
> > Only in 2.4.10aa1: 00_enable-apic-1
> 
> >        Enable UP ioapic on demand via boot param.
> 
> If you took my patch for it, PLEASE don't send it for inclusion; it's an
> evil hack and no longer needed when Intel fixes the bug in their 440GX bios.

we're having troubles with the ioapic compiled in in UP on some machine,
on 2.4.10pre I assume. Waiting bios updates is more problematic then
enabling on demand rather than disabling on demand, so yes I will be
obviously glad to drop this one as soon as the problem goes away.
thanks for the info.

Andrea