Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:25:38 +0100 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: SMP or UP??? |
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Hi Mikael :)
* Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> dixit: > >kernel: found SMP MP-table at 000fb210 > > What, SMP table? > You have an anti-problem. The chipset includes an I/O-APIC > (good) and your mobo manufacturer was decent enough to include > the appropriate BIOS MP tables to describe it to the OS.
Oh, nice. I thought that the mobo was a simple reisuing of a SMP mobo from Gigabyte with one socket removed O:)
> Other manufacturers skip the MP table, forcing you to enable > ACPI and pray it actually works.
Excuse my ignorance but: why a UP system needs the MP table? Why the I/O-APIC needs anything related with multiprocessor in an UP system?. I lost my way on hardware back in the 486, I think...
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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