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Date:      Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:29:34 -0800
From:      Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: device apic?
Message-ID:  <20041208172934.GB9252@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20041208074109.GB35079@ip.net.ua>
References:  <20041208013716.GA10869@ack.Berkeley.EDU> <20041208074109.GB35079@ip.net.ua>

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On Dec 08, "Ruslan Ermilov" wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:37:16PM -0800, Mike Hunter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm successfully up to 5.3-STABLE / RELENG_5 as of today :)
> > 
> > In order to build my kernel I had to leave out apic, even though I had
> > options SMP...has something changed?
> > 
> > # make buildkernel KERNCONF=mybox
> > 
> > config: Error: device "apic" is unknown
> > config: 1 errors
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> 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=1 in
> /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> Peter, can you tweak amd64/NOTES to *not* mention "device apic",
> as it's confusing?

I do want it, I was just confused about the kernel config.  Thanks very
much for clearing it up!

Mike



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