Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SMT, again (was: Re: [PATCH]: Fix MTRR handling on HT CPUs) | Date | Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:15:52 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I just found out that Intel specifies that on SMT-enabled > ("Jackson") systems the BIOS MP tables list only the physical CPUs. > Logical CPUs will only be available through the ACPI tables.
Yep. Thats why the miniacpi scanning stuff is in the current kernel
> All my attempts to get ACPI running on our SMT-enabled system have failed > so far (I'm working on a bug report on that for linux-acpi).
You don't need ACPI itself. See arch/i386/kernel/acpitable.c. Intel contributed patches to handle this stuff already.
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