[lug] noapic option

[D. Stimits]

Somewhere you already mentioned it is a dual PPro, so the i840 chipset
will be irrelevant. But much of the noapic news lately has been people
trying to get the i840 chipset to work, which is incompatible with linux
(thus noapic is required for stability). If anyone here shops for a new
SMP board, avoid i840, it is broken.

Rodger Wilson {I/O Software} wrote:
> 
> I have been having a hell of a time latly getting a few of my scsi
> cards working with linux.  I finally figured out that I need to boot
> linux with the noapic option.
> 
> This seems to make linux so that it will boot, but not stable!
> 
> I am guessing that this does something with the Priority Interupt
> Controler.  Does anyone know what the real issue that the noapic
> options really deals with, and/or other ways to really fix the
> problemr?
> 
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