From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:34:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A1ACE5E.E5796CE1@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1001121195742.28403E-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Quite a few dual pentium socket 7 boards report dual cpu and apic in the
> > MP table regardless of the capabilities of the CPU installed. Its apparently
> > legal to do so. There is an apic capability flag that should be tested before
>
> It's not legal -- the MPS is very explicit the MP-table must reflect a
> real configuration.
Legal or not, there are broken BIOSes out there. I had a Tyan Tomcat 4S
that exhibited this behavior. Even though it was a single socket board,
it had the same BIOS as the 4D (dual socket version) and would crash on
an SMP kernel with a K6.
--
Brian Gerst
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-21 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-21 13:51 Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1 Alan Cox
2000-11-21 18:14 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2000-11-21 18:18 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-21 18:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-21 18:31 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-21 18:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-21 18:49 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-21 19:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-21 19:34 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2000-11-21 23:31 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-22 0:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-22 0:29 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-22 0:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-22 15:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-22 16:47 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-22 17:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-22 17:58 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-22 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-22 18:06 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-23 8:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-23 8:52 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2000-11-22 16:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-21 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-21 23:25 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-21 19:07 Steven Cole
2000-11-21 23:27 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-22 1:20 Steven Cole
2000-11-22 18:18 Bruce_Holzrichter
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