Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:52:33 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NO_MIXED_MODE Message-ID: <20040919135233.4997ea78@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpllf7gfxo.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <xzpllf7gfxo.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 04:17:55 +0200, des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) 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... >=20 > 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. --=20 Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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