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SubjectRE: [BK PATCH] acpismp=force fix
FromArjan van de Ven <>
Date23 Jun 2003 10:01:42 +0200
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:43, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@digeo.com] 
> > >    ACPI: make it so acpismp=force works (reported by Andrew Morton)
> 
> > But prior to 2.5.72, CPU enumeration worked fine without 
> > acpismp=force. 
> > Now it is required.  How come?
> 
> (I'm taking the liberty to update the subject, which I accidentally left
> blank)
> 
> Because 2.4 has that behavior. One objection that people raised to
> applying the 2.4 ACPI patch was that it changed that behavior. So I made
> an effort to keep it there.

in 2.4 it is absolutely not mantadory; it's default actually if the cpu
advertises the "ht" flag.....[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
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