Re: A7M266-D, dual athlon 1800+ kernel-smp APIC boot problem workaround

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:46:15 +0100


On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:17:15PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > BTW the Athlons, clearly marked in the boxes as MP, identified
> > themselves as Athlon XP 1800+'s. We thought this might be the
> > problem at first but now we guess not.
>
> The BIOS forgets to load the MP name string, like a load of other
> problems it has.

x86info has proper descrimination of MP/XP using a readonly
cpu-capability if theres any doubt here.

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