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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@hamnavoe.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] local apic unreadable?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:03:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69e4f759b821d860c917e37f3db45391@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35958772805f8f85bca9c0fe40f54669@hamnavoe.com>

On Mon Jun 11 07:02:26 EDT 2012, 9fans@hamnavoe.com wrote:
> OK, solved.  This motherboard (or bios) gives the io apic an id of 0,
> same as the boot processor's local apic.  The unexpected aliasing
> causes the lapic (virtual) address to be overwritten by the ioapic
> address, so the lapic timer code is looking in the wrong place for its
> registers.

though unexpected, it's not aliasing.  lapics and apics have different
apic id namespaces.

> Erik's kernel has also had a similar fix, presumably made some time
> ago - there's a 9fans post about a "wierd lapic/ioapic configuration"
> which I should have spotted as a clue ...

1. may 2011, according to the dump.

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2012-06-11 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-08 17:07 Richard Miller
2012-06-08 17:33 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-08 17:53   ` Richard Miller
2012-06-08 18:01     ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-11 11:00       ` Richard Miller
2012-06-11 13:03         ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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