Re: local apic timer ints not working with vmware: nolocalapic

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linuxpower.ca)
Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:54:56 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> You may have a valid SMP table and discrete local APICs (i82489DX) which
> are not reported in CPU capability bits. The "nolocalapic" option should
> handle them, too. Otherwise it would be a surprising inconsistency.

Good point, out of interest, have you come across broken system like that?
Regardless i'll update the patch.

Thanks,
Zwane

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