Re: booting SMP P6 kernel on P4 hangs.

[Alan Cox]

> 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?

They are certainly involved in the latter but whether this is related  or 
a seperate evil empire scheme is open to question