Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Serious problem with new kernel?

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> I'm also not happy with turning off the IOAPIC for everybody. You can
> modify it for your local development environment, but don't check it in.
> I would suggest monitoring mailinglist and looking for patches over the
> next few days.

I found some work-arounds to make it work in VMware-4, without running 
a non-standard DL kernel.

Last night, I started a new compile following a mrproper, and compiled
my kernel as SMP.  That one boots fine in VMware.

Otherwise I can hold down space during boot, and type "linux noapic".
Or modify build-iso and add "noapic" to the "append ... " line.
I've tried it both ways, and it boots fine with VMware-4.

With that said, I still recommend we turn off IOAPIC in the UP kernel to
avoid problems that some people are going to have.  People who really
want/need IOAPIC can run a SMP kernel.  At least, I don't know of any
harm running a SMP kernel on a UP system...

 - BS