Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: smp + acpi | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:22:52 -0400 | From | "Brown, Len" <> |
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>> CONFIG_ACPI=y is necessary to parse the ACPI tables >> and discover HT siblings. Except for the rare BIOS >> that gives the option to enumerate HT via MPS >> (thus breaking some versions of Windows), >> enabling ACPI is the only way to enable HT. >> >> Yes, in the distant past, CONFIG_ACPI=n did not remove >> all ACPI code from your kernel, and that was a bug. > >Ok thanks for the confirmation. > >However the proposed change would be still wrong because >SMP can be without HT.
What proposed change?
I expect that the problem at hand is that CONFIG_SMP=y is fine, but with CONFIG_ACPI=n, that isn't going to find the HT threads on an HT system.
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