device apic?

[Mike Hunter]

On Dec 08, "Ruslan Ermilov" wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:37:16PM -0800, Mike Hunter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm successfully up to 5.3-STABLE / RELENG_5 as of today :)
> > 
> > In order to build my kernel I had to leave out apic, even though I had
> > options SMP...has something changed?
> > 
> > # make buildkernel KERNCONF=mybox
> > 
> > config: Error: device "apic" is unknown
> > config: 1 errors
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> There's no separate "device apic" on amd64, it's standard part
> of any kernel.  It order to turn it off, you either need to do
> it in your machine's BIOS, or set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in
> /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> Peter, can you tweak amd64/NOTES to *not* mention "device apic",
> as it's confusing?

I do want it, I was just confused about the kernel config.  Thanks very
much for clearing it up!

Mike