Re: aic7xxx lockup for SMP for 2.4.22

[Peter Maersk-Moller]

Hi

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > More info on the subject. It turns out that a 2.4.22 kernel
> > without SMP-support but with IO-APIC enabled will also lock-up/stop
> > when it installs the aic7xxx driver upon boot. Disabling the IO-APIC
> > and disabling SMP-support makes the kernel boot normally.

> How about UP and IO-APIC?

Assuming UP means uni-processor, do you then mean removing
one of the processors or just disabling (ie. not enabling) SMP ?

The latter case (enabling IO-APIC and disabling SMP) makes the
boot process halt when it come to activating the aic7xxx driver.

--PMM

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