Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * K.R. Foley <kr@cybsft.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Having problems with -RT-2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-33 booting on my older SMP 
>>system (dual 933). Looking at the log apic.log it indicates a problem 
>>with APIC. noapic.log is a log when I add "noapic" to the boot 
>>parameters.
> 
> 
> could you uncomment the IO_APIC_CACHE define in 
> arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c, and could you uncomment line 1109 in 
> drivers/ide/ide-io.c - does this fix things? (in apic mode)
> 
> 	Ingo
> 

Couple of things: 1) I could not find IO_APIC_CACHE anywhere. I could
find IOAPIC_CACHE but the define was not commented in io_apic.c. Also
the BUG_ON at line 1109 in ide-io.c was not commented out either. So I
made the mental leap that you actually meant to comment these out
instead of uncomment them??? That works to get the system booted.
Although I am getting many soft lockups now, minutes after the boot. Log
attached. 2) In my infinite wisdom before :-) I failed to attach my
config as I should have done before. Also, commenting out

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   kr