[SMP patch] io-apic-patch-2.1.97-A

MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:56:43 +0200 (CEST)

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for those who still have 2.1.97 SMP boot/device problems, here is a 2.1.97
patch that works around one rather rare BIOS bug. It has a chance to make
a difference on Dell Poweredge and certain Micronics boards (but other
boards might be affected as well).

if there is still anyone with a board having fundamental SMP troubles
around, then please let me know ASAP. Most common 'fundamental' problems:

- 'soft' or 'hard' hang at boot
or - some device doesnt work at all, driver says something nasty but
the system works under 2.0.33 or on uniprocessor kernels just
fine
or - system boots but strange 'IPI' messages pop up and system hangs
quickly
or - [or other symptoms]

it might be that i have accidentally overlooked some bug report, please
resend in such cases, there we quite many SMP fixes in recent kernels and
2.1.97+this_patch is supposed to work in 100% of the cases.

also i'm curious wether those 'jumpy PS2 mouse under X' problems are gone.

-- mingo

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