From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped?
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:34:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4756B6EC.1000103@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712050746500.29290@axis700.grange>
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Robert Hancock wrote:
>
>> Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>>> I've got an old 2xP-II @ 400MHz Compaq AP400 system, which I'm still using.
>>> It has many peculiarities, so, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer to my
>>> questions would be "sorry, the patient is rather dead than alive".
>> How about disabling ACPI entirely, acpi=off on kernel command line? I wouldn't
>> be surprised to see a lot of ACPI stuff broken on an older machine like that..
>
> See above - it's an SMP.
>
> Thanks
> Guennadi
> ---
> Guennadi Liakhovetski
>
On a machine that old, you shouldn't need ACPI to detect both CPUs, it
should be able to use MPS..
--
Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 14:34 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <fa./nzsMVb44+6c2x42WGfe04SPDrY@ifi.uio.no>
2007-12-05 2:19 ` [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped? Robert Hancock
2007-12-05 6:47 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-12-05 14:34 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-12-05 15:05 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-11-29 21:00 Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-12-02 18:30 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-03 21:45 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-12-03 21:47 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-03 21:56 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
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