Re: Broken MP table detected ...

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:55:44 -0600
Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what the following means, and how to fix it:
> 
>     APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
>     APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
>     APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0
> 
>  - aW

It means that you need to use 6.0 instead of 5.x =-)  It represents the 
old way that we connected the timecounters, which apparently isn't well
supported with newer amd64 boards.  6.0 solves this problem by using a
better supported mechanism.

Scott
Received on Mon Sep 19 2005 - 22:55:49 UTC

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