early-init patch and allow "lapic" to force enable LAPIC patch
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Quoted 7 lines · Sérgio Monteiro Basto
Hi Len,
early-init patch http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269
allow "lapic" to force enable LAPIC patch
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3238I just check it now this 2 patches are included on 2.6.9-rc4 the question is simple, isn't the second patch a replace of the first?
Nope.
There are systems that used to hang on boot in ACPI mode even though the BIOS enables the LAPIC by default. So the 2nd patch does not replace the 1st, which addresses those systems.
cheers,
-Len
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