Re: NMI watchdog question.

Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl)
Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:30:08 +0100 (MET)


On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> By any chance, does this implementation imply that if I boot SMP with
> 'noapic' the NMI watchdog won't work? It doesn't, but I am not sure I had
> it on before I turned off the APIC.

The I/O APIC watchdog won't be enabled as the chip isn't used then. You
may still use the local APIC watchdog (i.e. "nmi_watchdog=2"), but that
requires at least a P6-class processor (while the I/O APIC watchdog works
even with the i486).

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