From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: For some systems - especially during the install of FC2 - it would be very helpful to config UP IO-APIC support into the kernel. This would help when some of the legacy PIC support is not correct (some BIOSs) or not there at all (some hardware). According to the "notes" related to this option, nothing is harmed by including it and in some cases for some devices, this may be the only way to access the hardware (interrupts) when running the install kernel (UP kernel). Of course this option is on (correctly) in the SMP kernels and no change is requested (or needed) with the SMP kernels. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5-1.358 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use hardware with Legacy PIC support not functioning (remain nameless). 2.Install FC2 3.If doing a network install and NIC(s) have no interrupts - bad news. Actual Results: Unable to do network installations. Expected Results: If UP IO-APIC support were configured, the NIC(s) would function and the network installation would be possible (on this hardware). Additional info:
unfortionately this breaks too many machines out there, so we're not going to be able to do this.
Agreed - even a blacklist would need to be a whitelist or we would have megabytes of dmi blacklist tables. As regards 440GX this is fixed properly in 2.6.7
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