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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.16rc5 'found' an extra CPU.
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:31:29 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:26:24PM -0500, Brown, Len wrote:
 > Dave,
 > Your DSDT looks fine.
 > I was wrong assuming there were 3 Processor entries there.
 > 
 > > > Did you really build a 256-CPU SMP kernel or is ACPI 
 > > > ignoring CONFIG_NR_CPUS or something?
 > >
 > >Yes, it's =256.
 > 
 > I expect this is the root problem.

If this is the _cause_, something needs fixing, but it's hardly
something we can brush off as 'the root problem'.

It's entirely possible for such a configuration (higher
CONFIG_NR_CPUS than actual cpus), cf. distro kernels.

		Dave