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To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> It is possible :-).  Here is a completly untested patch.
> 
> [PATCH] fix lockups with APIC support on nForce2


I tried it (applied pacth and *enabled* CPU disconnect in bios) and it 
works! Good work. Nevertheless, it is no real fix, just a work-around. 
Perhaps somone from nvidia should comment on this...or some APIC guru 
needs to take a look into the code.

Prakash