NO_MIXED_MODE

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 04:17:55 +0200, des at des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav)
wrote:

> I just got an ASUS SK8N motherboard that has the problematic nForce 3
> chipset.  It runs 5.3 BETA4 fine, except you have to boot it in safe
> mode because the APIC only works properly in mixed mode, and GENERIC
> has the NO_MIXED_MODE option.  Took me quite a while to figure that
> out...
> 
> Should we consider removing that option for 5.3-RELEASE?

I'll second that motion.  I have the same chipset, and the same problem
with NO_MIXED_MODE.  I think we should err on the side of caution with
this one.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"