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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Sony Vaio VGN-SZ340 (was Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 21:09:35 -0700
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Cc: MoRpHeUz <morpheuz@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>, Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>, Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>, Andrea Gelmini <gelma@gelma.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Cacy Rodney <cacy-rodney-cacy@tlen.pl>

On Friday 05 January 2007 11:10, Len Brown wrote:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 12:24, MoRpHeUz wrote:
> > > What workaround are you using?
> > 
> >  This one: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465
> 
> Ah yes, the duplicate MADT issue is clearly a BIOS bug.
> It is possible that we can tweak our Linux workaround for it to be more
> Microsoft Windows Bug Compatbile(TM).

Maybe Windows discovers processors using the namespace rather
than the MADT.