From: Zwane Mwaikambo We might as well recommend the user boot with the noapic kernel parameter instead of filling poor Ingo's mailbox. Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c | 2 +- 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c~recommend-noapic-when-timer-via-ioapic-fails arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c --- 25/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c~recommend-noapic-when-timer-via-ioapic-fails Tue Jul 27 14:02:53 2004 +++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c Tue Jul 27 14:02:53 2004 @@ -2213,7 +2213,7 @@ static inline void check_timer(void) return; } printk(" failed :(.\n"); - panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! pester mingo@redhat.com"); + panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter\n"); } /* diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c~recommend-noapic-when-timer-via-ioapic-fails arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c --- 25/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c~recommend-noapic-when-timer-via-ioapic-fails Tue Jul 27 14:02:53 2004 +++ 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c Tue Jul 27 14:02:53 2004 @@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ static inline void check_timer(void) return; } printk(" failed :(.\n"); - panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! pester mingo@redhat.com"); + panic("IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter\n"); } /* _