APIC, ACPI nforce

[Hendrik Hasenbein]

Rob MacGregor wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org 
>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
>>
>>APIC is broken on nforce2 boards. I got an ASUS mainboard and 
>>the clock 
>>interrupt gets screwed up if I enable APIC. The boards are 
>>designed for 
>>a single processor so the only problem is that APIC is turned on by 
>>default now. I have heard of BIOS versions that could fix the 
>>interrupt problem, but I havent tried them yet.
> 
> 
> I've got an nForce2 Shuttle system that's running -CURRENT as of
> 5.2-RELEASE (the latest update being from yesterday).  I've had APIC and
> ACPI enabled all the time and had, as yet, no problems.
> 

Perhaps it is really the BIOS. I'll try as soon as I get a way to flash it.

Hendrik