[PATCH] i386: Handle non existing APICs without panicing
[description from AK]
This fixes booting in APIC mode on some ACER laptops. x86-64
did a similar change some time ago.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4700 for details
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c b/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
index f2dd218..235822b 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
@@ -2566,8 +2566,10 @@
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioapic_lock, flags);
/* Sanity check */
- if (reg_00.bits.ID != apic_id)
- panic("IOAPIC[%d]: Unable change apic_id!\n", ioapic);
+ if (reg_00.bits.ID != apic_id) {
+ printk("IOAPIC[%d]: Unable to change apic_id!\n", ioapic);
+ return -1;
+ }
}
apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, KERN_INFO