RHEL3.9 smp kernel panics during booting while changing APIC ID
Issue
System with a dual xeon intel processor and with the last kernel 2.4.21-63.ELsmp, the IO-apic initialization generates kenel panic. The boot process snip:
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Setting 8 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 8 ... ok.
Setting 9 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 9 ... ok.
Setting 10 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 10 ...<0>Kernel panic: could not set ID!
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8/3.9 SMP
PentxM2/M4 board
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