Freebsd 6.0 doesnt detect local APIC on a Pentium 3 machine

[Joseph Koshy]

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> But on my Pentium 3, 850 MHz machine, it doesnt detect local
> APIC and falls back to using the motherboard clock for the
> clock interrupts.

Is your machine a UP one?  Some P6...P-III UP motherboards
keep the local APIC disabled in software.  Linux has a boot
time option to forcibly enable the CPU's local APIC; we don't
have an equivalent.

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