Re: unexpected IO-APIC was found

"Randy.Dunlap" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-smp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:28:25 +0100 Bernd Schubert <[email protected]> wrote:

| Hello,
| 
| 2.4.23 complains abount an unexpected IO-APIC (see that attached 
| dmesg-output).
| 
| The board is an Tyan Thunder K8S (S2880) with only one opteron cpu. Before I 
| just upgraded the bios to current version those messages didn't occur.
| 
| Please cc me since I'm not suscribed to this list.

This may be an obvious question to some...:  is this with a kernel
that is built for i386 (ia-32) and not for an Opteron?

The i386 code does not expect an IO APIC with max redirection
entries = 03, but the x86_64 code does expect/allow that.

--
~Randy
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