Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:16:06 +0100 (MET) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: Detecting SMP |
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> So, one would normally expect this to mean an SMP board rather than > multiple processors, _HOWEVER_, I can imagine a very clever MP-aware BIOS > implementation which detects that there are many processors and prepares > MP floating config table and does _not_ prepare it otherwise. So, it all > depends on the BIOS implementation.
I've seen systems that do so and while it's not forbidden I consider it a bad thing. It prevents us from being able to use I/O APICs.
-- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
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