RE: [BK PATCH] acpismp=force fix

Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
23 Jun 2003 10:01:42 +0200


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On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:43, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@digeo.com]=20
> > > ACPI: make it so acpismp=3Dforce works (reported by Andrew Morton)
>=20
> > But prior to 2.5.72, CPU enumeration worked fine without=20
> > acpismp=3Dforce.=20
> > Now it is required. How come?
>=20
> (I'm taking the liberty to update the subject, which I accidentally left
> blank)
>=20
> Because 2.4 has that behavior. One objection that people raised to
> applying the 2.4 ACPI patch was that it changed that behavior. So I made
> an effort to keep it there.

in 2.4 it is absolutely not mantadory; it's default actually if the cpu
advertises the "ht" flag.....

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