From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:02:19 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <94e575621151ea768c75bda1395540eb@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] tech writer humor Topicbox-Message-UUID: b35f3272-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue Feb 22 15:58:12 EST 2011, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote: > > the madt table or the mp tables reflect a snaphot of *all* > > the i/o apics and lapics in the system at the time when bios handed > > control over to the operating system (sic.). > > No it doesn't. That's the bug in the BIOS -- it screws up building > the table. I have an Intel mini-ITX board sitting in a box because > it's unuseable due to this bug. by definition, a bug in your bios doesn't change the specification, - erik