Re: An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less than three months old please report this to [email protected]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:15:38 -0500 [email protected] wrote:

| Linux version 2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp ([email protected]) (gcc
| version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-37)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 29 18:04:47
| EDT 2004
| BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

| ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
| Setting 1 in the phys_id_present_map
| ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 1 ... ok.
| init IO_APIC IRQs
|  IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 1-0, 1-13 not connected.
| ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
| number of MP IRQ sources: 40.
| number of IO-APIC #1 registers: 24.
| testing the IO APIC.......................
| 
| IO APIC #1......
| .... register #00: 01000000
| .......    : physical APIC id: 01
| .......    : Delivery Type: 0
| .......    : LTS          : 0
| .... register #01: 00178020
| .......     : max redirection entries: 0017
| .......     : PRQ implemented: 1
| .......     : IO APIC version: 0020
| .... register #02: 00178020
| .......     : arbitration: 00
| An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less than
| three months old please report this to [email protected]

Hmm, it seems to depend on how one is measuring this 3 months old time.
Anyway, Linux 2.4.21 is not less than 3 months old and this problem
is fixed in Linux 2.4.22.

(I'm not trying to pick on you -- this happens [too] often.)

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~Randy