Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:34:54 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1 |
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"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Quite a few dual pentium socket 7 boards report dual cpu and apic in the > > MP table regardless of the capabilities of the CPU installed. Its apparently > > legal to do so. There is an apic capability flag that should be tested before > > It's not legal -- the MPS is very explicit the MP-table must reflect a > real configuration.
Legal or not, there are broken BIOSes out there. I had a Tyan Tomcat 4S that exhibited this behavior. Even though it was a single socket board, it had the same BIOS as the 4D (dual socket version) and would crash on an SMP kernel with a K6.
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