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From: Juan Quintela <quintela@trasno.org>
To: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: "'Arjan van de Ven'" <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	"Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] acpismp=force fix
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:42:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <863chrshay.fsf@trasno.mitica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A5974D8E5F98D511BB910002A50A66470B981205@hdsmsx103.hd.intel.com> (Len Brown's message of "Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:37:11 -0700")

>>>>> "brown," == Brown, Len <len.brown@intel.com> writes:

Hi

brown,> To disable HT on a uni-processor, wouldn't it be preferable to simply run
brown,> the UP kernel rather than the SMP kernel with HT disabled?  That leaves SMP
brown,> systems, where either the BIOS could disable it (it is a BIOS bug if it
brown,> can't), or as a last resort CONFIG_X86_HT (2.5) could be config'd out of the
brown,> kernel.  I guess I've talked myself into not missing "noht" also.

noht is very useful for distributions, we already have to do a lot of
kernels,  any option that "mandates" to compile a different kernel is
just bad (IMHO).

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-30 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-26 21:37 [BK PATCH] acpismp=force fix Brown, Len
2003-06-27 11:58 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-06-27 11:59   ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-30 15:42 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-23  7:43 Grover, Andrew
2003-06-23  7:58 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-23  8:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-23 11:46   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-06-23 11:54     ` Arjan van de Ven

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