[Dri-devel] agpgart issues - APIC?

[Joseph C. <kng...@de...>]

Can anyone think of a reason why APIC may or may not affect stability of
DRI on some/any AGP cards?  APIC is a SMPism, but several new boards offer
it even for uniprocessor systems and I've always used it when available.

I'm wondering if this could possibly have anything to do with my Radeon
and KT7A problems.  The board works fine with other AGP cards (TNT2 and
Voodoo3 (which almost doesn't count) tested) and the Radeon works in other
boards (VIA/Intel, Intel/Intel) plus has been reported to work with other
KT133A based systems - I don't know if the person in question has a KT7A
or not.

It's recently dawned on me that using APIC opens me up to certain SMP
kernel bugs and I have no idea if I might have found one or not.  I'd
rather not willfully crash the box again if I can help it, which I hope is
understandable, but if there's a real shot of it helping, I can try
turning it off.

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