Bug 53864 - Could not enable APIC
Summary: Could not enable APIC
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-09-20 12:30 UTC by acount closed by user
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-09-20 12:45:23 UTC
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Description acount closed by user 2001-09-20 12:30:13 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u)

Description of problem:
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Could not enable APIC!


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot the machine
2. show the boot log
3. or # dmesg
	

Additional info:

laptop dell inspiron 4000 (bios a16)
Comment 1 acount closed by user 2001-09-20 12:31:16 UTC 
the kernel is 2.4.3-12 for i686
Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-09-20 12:33:33 UTC 
Does the machine keep functioning? The message in itself is harmless...
Comment 3 acount closed by user 2001-09-20 12:37:18 UTC 
The system is very stable and it run ok.
Comment 4 Arjan van de Ven 2001-09-20 12:45:19 UTC 
Well there is nothing to worry about; "APIC" is an advanced "interrupt
controller", and is used mostly for big servers. Linux tries to enable it, but
not all systems have one (and you don't need one; laptops try to avoid such
components often because they consume energy), and it will fall back to the
normal interrupt controller
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