Dont't disable early PCI scan with apic It might be still needed for non APIC related issues. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c @@ -260,9 +260,6 @@ __setup("apic", enable_ioapic_setup); void __init check_ioapic(void) { int num,slot,func; - if (ioapic_force) - return; - /* Poor man's PCI discovery */ for (num = 0; num < 32; num++) { for (slot = 0; slot < 32; slot++) {