Re: 2.4.20-rc2-xfs lockups

[Mike Eldridge]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:31:22PM -0600, Mike Eldridge wrote:
> all,
> 
> i recently replaced a pII-350 with a pair of pIII-500s in a tyan
> S1836-DLUAN-GX board (440GX dual slot 1).  i'm now getting loads of NMI
> interrupts for unknown reasons (reasons 2c and 3c).

after more googling, i've found several pieces of information that seem
to suggest interrupt routing on 440GX-based motherboards is busted.

can anyone confirm this?  will booting with 'noapic' fix this problem?
am i doomed to run a UP kernel?

-mike

[0] http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-28/0554.html

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