From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Alessandro Suardi <ALESSANDRO.SUARDI@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:19:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030120131958.GB27417@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7346727.1043065918456.JavaMail.nobody@web11.us.oracle.com>
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:31:58AM -0800, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> I was hoping to use HT on my new Latitude C640 (P4 @ 1.8Ghz) but at boot
> both 2.4.21-pre3 and 2.5.59 (obviously with a SMP kernel) tell me
I'd be surprised^Wamazed if your laptop has HT. AFAIK, no-one is
shipping such a system yet. Just because the CPU flags say 'ht' does
not mean it has >1 CPU thread per CPU package.
> "Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC."
Lots of Dell laptops (like other vendors) crash instantly when trying to
enable the APIC.
> Is this anything that can be played with ?
Nope.
Dave
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2003-01-20 12:31 "Latitude with broken BIOS" ? Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 13:19 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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2003-01-20 13:28 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 13:41 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-20 13:49 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 14:13 Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-20 14:38 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 15:02 Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-20 15:23 Alessandro Suardi
2003-05-23 8:55 Brouard Nicolas
2003-05-23 9:02 ` mikpe
2003-05-23 21:04 ` Brouard Nicolas
2003-05-23 17:41 ` Mark Watts
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