Re: Only one processor detected in 8-Way opteron in 32-bit mode

Andi Kleen
2005-12-03T17:52:01Z

Keith Mannthey <kmannth@gmail.com> writes:

> Welcome to hardware bring up. Ok I looked a little closer at the
> story. In x86_64 the only check for valid apic is apicid < MAX_APICS
> which make sense to me.

It will still not work. He will need a variant of the physflat-i386
patch I posted some time ago. However it needs some cleanup
to be actually mergeable

My recommendation is a 64bit kernel.

-Andi