Re: booting SMP P6 kernel on P4 hangs.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > It should boot, and it looks like the problem may be a bad MP table.
>
> Oh it is. And it's due to a recommendation Intel makes to bios writers.
> As a result, every P4 I've encountered shares this bug. Intel knows it's
> an invalid MP table, but refuses to change the recommendation.

What's the recommendation? We might be able to change the specific code in
question..

Or are they just trying to strongarm the move to the horrid ACPI tables?

		Linus