On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:43, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@digeo.com]
> > > ACPI: make it so acpismp=force works (reported by Andrew Morton)
>
> > But prior to 2.5.72, CPU enumeration worked fine without
> > acpismp=force.
> > Now it is required. How come?
>
> (I'm taking the liberty to update the subject, which I accidentally left
> blank)
>
> 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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