Re: [PATCH] Make Intel 8-way Xeons boot again

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/12/2010 12:20 PM, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:10 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> if the system can not use logical flat.
>>
>> should have some bit set in FADT...
> 
> Yinghai, Sorry. I am not sure what you are referring to here. I have
> mentioned about FADT in another thread, so not sure what you mean by
> this here.
> 
> Are you referring that bios for the IBM system can use this to fix their
> problem? Once we understand what the problem is with IBM platform, then
> we can propose a solution (using FADT perhaps) that is acceptable to
> everyone.
> 

Does the IBM platform set this bit in FADT?

	-hpa
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