Hyper-threaded pickle

[Jeff Garzik]

So,

Just now getting my dual athlon going under 2.6.x.  It _really_ doesn't 
like ACPI.

ACPI specifications dictate some hardware characteristics, as well as 
specifying table structures and such.  One of those characteristics is 
the 4-second poweroff:  if you hold down the power button for 4-5 
seconds, your motherboard is required to poweroff the machine.  This is 
supposed to be a hard poweroff, and on most machines this works even 
when various pieces of hardware are frozen/locked-up.

Turning on ACPI kills my 4-second poweroff, which is pretty darn 
impressive.  So I proceed to disable ACPI...  but CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT 
doesn't want to disable.  I am trying to restore my working, non-ACPI 
configuration under 2.6, but this seems to be preventing me from doing so:

drivers/acpi/Kconfig:
config ACPI_BOOT
        bool
        depends on ACPI || X86_HT
        default y

arch/i386/Kconfig:
config X86_HT
        bool
        depends on SMP && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)
        default y

My dual athlon _definitely_ doesn't have hyperthreading, and I am 
willing to bet that force-enabling the ACPI boot and HT code for all SMP 
machines breaks other older-SMP boxes as well.

	Jeff




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