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DateMon, 23 Jun 2003 12:46:38 +0100 (BST)
FromHugh Dickins <>
SubjectRE: [BK PATCH] acpismp=force fix
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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.....

Right, enabling HT hasn't relied on "acpismp=force" since 2.4.18.
Requiring "acpismp=force" now in 2.4 or 2.5 is just a step backwards.

But when we changed to HT by default, I added bootparam "noht" to
disable it if it was found troublesome.  Last time I checked, "noht"
was ineffectual on 2.5, and perhaps now it's ineffectual on 2.4.22-pre?

(If I remember right, in 2.5 it did have one effect, determining whether
the "ht" flag is shown in /proc/cpuinfo: but it was intended to be more
useful than that.)

Certainly reliance on "acpismp=force" should be removed if it's crept
back in.  But what should we do about "noht"?  Wave a fond goodbye,
and remove it's associated code and Documentation from 2.4 and 2.5
trees, rely on changing the BIOS setting instead?  Or bring it back
into action?

Hugh

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