From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: "Marco Berizzi" <pupilla@hotmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: smp + acpi
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:13:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607261913.25806.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CFF307C98FEABE47A452B27C06B85BB60112506C@hdsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>
> CONFIG_ACPI=y is necessary to parse the ACPI tables
> and discover HT siblings. Except for the rare BIOS
> that gives the option to enumerate HT via MPS
> (thus breaking some versions of Windows),
> enabling ACPI is the only way to enable HT.
>
> Yes, in the distant past, CONFIG_ACPI=n did not remove
> all ACPI code from your kernel, and that was a bug.
Ok thanks for the confirmation.
However the proposed change would be still wrong because
SMP can be without HT.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-26 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-26 17:07 smp + acpi Brown, Len
2006-07-26 17:13 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2006-07-26 17:22 Brown, Len
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2006-07-26 16:57 ` Robert Hancock
2006-07-26 12:47 Marco Berizzi
2006-07-26 15:23 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-26 15:37 ` Marco Berizzi
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