Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:59:58 -0500 | From | Andreas Boman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] AMD SMP capability sanity checking. |
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:39:21 +0100 (CET) Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> wrote:
> 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. >
Well the case you cited in your first mail turned out to be a GPM glitch, solved by plugging in a mouse. Nothing to do with SMP what so ever. I have yet to hear of any K7 cpu(s) that will _not_ work in SMP mode, care to share a few real cases where that is the case? (ie all other factors ruled out).
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