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DateMon, 20 Jan 2003 13:19:58 +0000
FromDave Jones <>
SubjectRe: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:31:58AM -0800, Alessandro Suardi wrote:


 >   I was hoping to use HT on my new Latitude C640 (P4 @ 1.8Ghz) but at boot
 >   both 2.4.21-pre3 and 2.5.59 (obviously with a SMP kernel) tell me

I'd be surprised^Wamazed if your laptop has HT. AFAIK, no-one is
shipping such a system yet. Just because the CPU flags say 'ht' does
not mean it has >1 CPU thread per CPU package.

 >  "Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC."

Lots of Dell laptops (like other vendors) crash instantly when trying to
enable the APIC.

 >  Is this anything that can be played with ?

Nope.

		Dave

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