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SubjectRe: [PATCH] AMD SMP capability sanity checking.
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jeff Golds wrote:

> > Burning out a fuse to make the switch from MP->XP may affect more
> > than just the cpuid capabilities. The fact is _we don't know_
> Right, so why assume it doesn't work?

Because there are cases where it. does. not. work.

> People with "true" SMP CPUs can have problems as well. Does this mean
> SMP CPUs are not SMP capable? If only one person is having problems,
> chances are there's a problem someplace.

Such problems get researched, and warnings such as the one in
my patch get added. Take a look through smpboot.c and friends.
We support a lot of broken hardware, but there's a difference between
broken (buggy) and running something outside of its specification.

> Could it be a faulty motherboard?

The reason we have DMI table scanning on boot up.

> Mismatched CPUs?

Another unsupported configuration we should at least warn about.
Note however, that some quad systems allow 2 different pairs.

> Bad memory?

The reason memtest86 came to be.

> Bad CPU?

See errata workarounds in smpboot.c & setup.c

> Bad power supply?

Running underrated PSUs on modern hw is asking for trouble.
Unless you think AMD approved PSUs are another marketing gimmik
to make people pay out more.

> There's an awful lot of variables here.

Sure. And this eliminates one such variable.

regards,

Dave.

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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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