From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:10:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:10:16 -0400 Received: from weta.f00f.org ([203.167.249.89]:54415 "HELO weta.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:09:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:10:46 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Alan Cox Cc: john slee , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: booting SMP P6 kernel on P4 hangs. Message-ID: <20010803211046.A16299@weta.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: <20010803000043.F1183@higherplane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:50:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Which gives intel plenty of time to fix their bios problems. Right now the situation is we are seeing Pentium IV boxes reporting invalid MP 1.4 specs and dying. Reporting an invalid MP spec and booting single user at least ensures people can boot their boxes while intel fixes their problems I assume these things, even with busted MP tables will work under Win2k as it will use ACPI tables instead (I'm assuming they are available abd valid?). What about NT4? If that can also use ACPI tables (I can't see how, it predates ACPI I think) then it may well be Linux is the only thing that stil uses MP tables and hence won't boot in such machines :( --cw