Bug 75186

Summary: IO-APIC warning message on 2.4.18-14custom
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Yan-Fa Li <yanfali>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Yan-Fa Li 2002-10-05 08:14:03 UTC 
Description of Problem:
I customed compiled a K7 kernel for an athlon box using the
redhat sources and the kernel dmesg has this message on my particular
motherboard.  It's a gigabyte 7VRXP with F10 bios.

testing the IO APIC.......................

IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
.......    : physical APIC id: 02
.... register #01: 00178002
.......     : max redirection entries: 0017
.......     : PRQ implemented: 1
.......     : IO APIC version: 0002
 WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
          to linux-smp.org



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.18-14custom (no changes)

How Reproducible:
2.4.18-14custom kernel on this particular motherboard.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile kernel
2. boot
3. check dmesg

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Comment 1 Yan-Fa Li 2002-10-05 08:15:17 UTC 
Created attachment 78844 [details]
bzip2 dmesg dump from the affected system
Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2002-10-05 08:36:00 UTC 
this message is completely harmless; all it means is that there is a chip the
kernel doesn't know the marketing name for ;)