Re: [PATCH][2.5-AC] Forced enable/disable local APIC

[Mikael Pettersson]

Zwane Mwaikambo writes:
 > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
 > 
 > >  Well, the "lapic" option should override the DMI setting, not the
 > > APICBASE availability check.  Anyway, I don't insist on this that much --
 > > while I think consistency is good, none of the "*apic" options are
 > > actually a necessity for me.  If one needs the option, one may still cook
 > > an appropriate patch oneself. 
 > 
 > I think the nolapic is definitely needed because i've come across a number 
 > of bug reports where the simplest solution would be to just disable the 
 > local apic.

People with broken boxes should send their DMI data to me so I can add
their boxes to the local APIC blacklist in dmi_scan.c. "nolapic" is
simply a workaround for the absence of this DMI data.

Notice how silent the Inspiron 8k users are now that the DMI black
list is implemented...

/Mikael