Re: booting SMP P6 kernel on P4 hangs.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 01:51:46 +0100 (BST)


> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > >
> > > It should boot, and it looks like the problem may be a bad MP table.
> >
> > Oh it is. And it's due to a recommendation Intel makes to bios writers.
> > As a result, every P4 I've encountered shares this bug. Intel knows it's
> > an invalid MP table, but refuses to change the recommendation.
>
> What's the recommendation? We might be able to change the specific code in
> question..
>
> Or are they just trying to strongarm the move to the horrid ACPI tables?

They are certainly involved in the latter but whether this is related or
a seperate evil empire scheme is open to question

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