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From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SMP or UP???
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:25:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040112122538.GD18408@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401121211.i0CCBg5u006677@harpo.it.uu.se>

    Hi Mikael :)

 * Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> dixit:
> >kernel: found SMP MP-table at 000fb210
> >    What, SMP table?
> You have an anti-problem. The chipset includes an I/O-APIC
> (good) and your mobo manufacturer was decent enough to include
> the appropriate BIOS MP tables to describe it to the OS.

    Oh, nice. I thought that the mobo was a simple reisuing of a SMP
mobo from Gigabyte with one socket removed O:)

> Other manufacturers skip the MP table, forcing you to enable
> ACPI and pray it actually works. 

    Excuse my ignorance but: why a UP system needs the MP table? Why
the I/O-APIC needs anything related with multiprocessor in an UP
system?. I lost my way on hardware back in the 486, I think...

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-12 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-12 12:11 SMP or UP??? Mikael Pettersson
2004-01-12 12:25 ` DervishD [this message]
2004-01-12 13:35   ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-12 16:21     ` DervishD
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-12 10:20 DervishD
2004-01-12 15:30 ` Matthew D. Pitts

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