x86 APIC interrupts for UP i810 chipset?

[Ingo Molnar]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> > > In looking through the i810 docs, it appears to me that the chipset
> > > provides an APIC even for uniprocessor configurations.
> > 
> > working on it :)
> 
> last time i tried booting a uniprocessor machine with APIC enabled,
> which was around 2.1.107 or so, any process which tried to touch the
> network became a zombie.  this was on a gigabyte dual-pentium board
> with a single pentium on it.

booting the x86 SMP kernel on a one-CPU SMP box should work just fine
under 2.3.40 + smp-C3, if it doesnt then it's a bug and i'd like to know
about it. But what we are talking about is another case: having a UP
kernel with APIC and IOAPIC support in it.

	Ingo


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