Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:41:35 -0400 | | From | "Lee Revell" <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.20.4: NETDEV WATCHDOG and lockups |
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On 4/3/07, Christian Kujau <christian@g-house.de> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Although it's not as bad with servers, many machines are designed to run only > > Windows (which normally always uses ACPI) and simply aren't tested well or at > > all with ACPI disabled so you can run into a lot of problems which are just > > bugs in the BIOS, etc. > > I only thought it was the other way around: less (active, used) code - > less bug (caused by strange ACPI implementations). But I can see your > point. >
We have a bunch of servers here where Linux will only see one core per processor unless ACPI is enabled.
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