From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] tech writer humor
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:57:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2002f452e06238c2d20e7355dd7d2e4@gandalf.orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ff1c99ad70480d11cfd8d4656963edd@ladd.quanstro.net>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-22 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-22 1:45 erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 17:53 ` ron minnich
2011-02-22 18:22 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 19:20 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 20:09 ` ron minnich
2011-02-22 20:26 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2011-02-22 20:27 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 20:46 ` Nemo
2011-02-22 20:47 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-02-22 20:54 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 20:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) [this message]
2011-02-22 21:02 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 21:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-02-23 17:26 ` ron minnich
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