Re: invalid SMP mptable on Toshiba Satellite 2430-301

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Nov 13 2003 - 13:15:14 EST



On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jochen Voss wrote:
>
> With the patch the crash goes away, but I get the error message
>
> BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!...
> ... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor)
>
> now. I guess that means no hyperthreading for me :-(

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.

Linus

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