Re: invalid SMP mptable on Toshiba Satellite 2430-301

[Jochen Voss]

Hello,

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:13:08AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm.. Do you have ACPI enabled? We really shouldn't need the MP table if 
> the information is elsewhere, but the mptable assumptions might be a bit 
> entrenched.

With SMP and ACPI enabled I get the following kernel
boot messages

    Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
	Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
    SMP mptable: bad signature [0x0]!
    BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!...
    ... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor)

The last message is generated by the following code
in arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c:

    if (!smp_read_mpc((void *)mpf->mpf_physptr)) {
        smp_found_config = 0;
        printk(KERN_ERR "BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!...\n");
        printk(KERN_ERR "... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor)\n");
        return;
    }

I don't know what effects are caused by the 'smp_found_config = 0',
but later-on the following messages appear:

    No local APIC present or hardware disabled
    ...
    CPU:     After generic identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
    CPU:     After vendor identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
    CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
    CPU: L2 cache: 512K
    CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
    CPU:     After all inits, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
    ...
    SMP motherboard not detected.
    Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
    Starting migration thread for cpu 0
    CPUS done 4

I hope this helps,
Jochen
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