Re: kernel 2.1.131 and second processor

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
8 Dec 1998 10:05:38 GMT

Followup to: <m0znCeO-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> That indicates your BIOS writer is unable to read and parse
> standards documents. So long as you have MTRR support enabled in
> the kernel Linux will work around that.
>

... as just far too many of them are :(

BIOSes are *so* buggy, and that's besides the hideously crappy API.

-hpa

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