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You can toggle mixed mode via a loader tunable.  I'd add a note to the 
hardware notes suggesting that people with the specific motherboard break 
into the loader during install and do:

set hw.apic.mixed_mode=1

and then add an appropriate line to /boot/loader.conf after install.

John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org
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I dont understand what i have to do to make the apic work on a sk8n ?

Can somebody explain to me what i have to do and what i have to write
in /boot/loader.conf so apic works on the sk8n please

thx