Once I get my gateway up at the house, I will give you full access to on
of the BP6 boxes. You can wreck it if need be, but there is something
goofy. Mind everyone that I have REV 1 of the board and the original
BIOS. Thus if you have REV 2, it many not be relavent (sp).
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Brian Macy wrote:
> It might be worth noting though. I know SMP boxes are becoming more
> common with the advent of cheap dual celeron boards. The very popular
> BP6 has a similar problem... *and* if you enable MPS 1.4 on it you get
> exactly half the memory throughput (aherick confirmed I wasn't smoking
> something:).
>
> What does MPS 1.4 buy you anyway?
>
> Brian Macy
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > When using a Gigabyte BXD [SMP] motherboard, make sure your bios setup is
> > > configured to use MPS version 1.1, and not 1.4 !!!
> > >
> > > What is disturbing: this isn't discussed anywhere near the kernel-source,
> > > I'd have expected some witty comments on this, but well, it seems to work
> > > again -- or is someone busy implementing the MPS 1.4 specs into the kernel?
> >
> > We support MPS 1.4. If your BIOS gets it wrong it isnt our problem 8)
> >
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