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Re: CVS commit: src



On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 05:53:46PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 03:29:12PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > - Make MULTIPROCESSOR mandatory on i386.
> 
> I am a bit worried about setups with broken ioapic and/or ACPI tables.
> I am hunting down at least one major bug in this class and we had issues
> in the past with disabling ioapic via boot -c resulting in a broken
> system. Are we confident that works on all systems now?

I doubt that disabling it via autoconf is enough. We can make the -2 boot
switch imply no MPBIOS / ioapic.

Andrew


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