Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped?

[Robert Hancock]

Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Robert Hancock wrote:
>
> > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > I've got an old 2xP-II @ 400MHz Compaq AP400 system, which I'm still using.
> > > It has many peculiarities, so, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer to my
> > > questions would be "sorry, the patient is rather dead than alive".
> > How about disabling ACPI entirely, acpi=off on kernel command line? I wouldn't
> > be surprised to see a lot of ACPI stuff broken on an older machine like that..
>
> See above - it's an SMP.
>
> Thanks
> Guennadi
> ---
> Guennadi Liakhovetski

On a machine that old, you shouldn't need ACPI to detect both CPUs, it 
should be able to use MPS..

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