Unpredictable problems with APIC renumbering

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 26 14:17:46 PDT 2003


On 26-Aug-2003 Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> I havea 4.8-RELEASE-p3 kernel, with the SMP options turned on
> (including hyperthreading). GA-7DPXDW-P (gigabyte) motherboard, 2
> Athlon 2400MP CPU's, 1G memory and an adaptec 2120S raid card.
> 
> It's been working beautifully when it is up, no
> problems. Fairly often, on boot or reboot, the kernel reports that it
> is unable to reprogram intpin 2. I stupidly did not write down the
> message, thinking it would be in the log file, but will do this the
> next time it happens. I've appended the first part of the boot log
> from a normal boot in case this is helpful.
> 
> Is there a fix or work-a-round for this problem?

It's not a problem you need to worry about and is common to many
MP motherboards.

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