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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:41:10 +0200
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>,
	Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: device apic?
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:37:16PM -0800, Mike Hunter wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I'm successfully up to 5.3-STABLE / RELENG_5 as of today :)
>=20
> In order to build my kernel I had to leave out apic, even though I had
> options SMP...has something changed?
>=20
> # make buildkernel KERNCONF=3Dmybox
>=20
> config: Error: device "apic" is unknown
> config: 1 errors
> *** Error code 1
>=20
There's no separate "device apic" on amd64, it's standard part
of any kernel.  It order to turn it off, you either need to do
it in your machine's BIOS, or set hint.apic.0.disabled=3D1 in
/boot/loader.conf.

Peter, can you tweak amd64/NOTES to *not* mention "device apic",
as it's confusing?


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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