The patch titled i386: apic= command line option should always be has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is i386-apic=-command-line-option-should-always-be.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: i386: apic= command line option should always be From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> When using apic= on the kernel command line, this had no effect for machines matched by either the ACPI MADT or the MPS OEM table scan. However, when such option is specified, it should also take effect for this set of systems. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c~i386-apic=-command-line-option-should-always-be arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c --- devel/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c~i386-apic=-command-line-option-should-always-be 2006-05-29 14:16:20.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c 2006-05-29 14:16:20.000000000 -0700 @@ -93,9 +93,11 @@ int __init mps_oem_check(struct mp_confi int i; for (i = 0; apic_probe[i]; ++i) { if (apic_probe[i]->mps_oem_check(mpc,oem,productid)) { - genapic = apic_probe[i]; - printk(KERN_INFO "Switched to APIC driver `%s'.\n", - genapic->name); + if (!cmdline_apic) { + genapic = apic_probe[i]; + printk(KERN_INFO "Switched to APIC driver `%s'.\n", + genapic->name); + } return 1; } } @@ -107,9 +109,11 @@ int __init acpi_madt_oem_check(char *oem int i; for (i = 0; apic_probe[i]; ++i) { if (apic_probe[i]->acpi_madt_oem_check(oem_id, oem_table_id)) { - genapic = apic_probe[i]; - printk(KERN_INFO "Switched to APIC driver `%s'.\n", - genapic->name); + if (!cmdline_apic) { + genapic = apic_probe[i]; + printk(KERN_INFO "Switched to APIC driver `%s'.\n", + genapic->name); + } return 1; } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx are i386-apic=-command-line-option-should-always-be.patch x86_64-fix-last_tsc-calculation-of-pm-timer.patch dprintk-adjustments-to-cpufreq-nforce2.patch dprintk-adjustments-to-cpufreq-speedstep-centrino.patch cpufreq-dprintk-adjustments.patch fix-recovery-path-from-errors-during-pcie_init.patch mpt_interrupt-should-return-irq_none-when.patch x86_64-reliable-stack-trace-support-i386-fix.patch fix-x86-microcode-driver-handling-of-multiple-matching.patch adjust-handle_irr_event-return-type.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html