From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] missing machs unearthed
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 10:20:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a33835706de771c19e81a9b44d0ff948@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <221bb4c0dbe48162e01b47aae85ef33e@brasstown.quanstro.net>
> i've had a core i7 machine for some time with 4c/8t.
> unfortunately, the mp table has only 4 processor entries.
My impression is that mp tables are getting worse and worse on new
hardware because vendors assume everyone is running an acpi-aware OS.
Does anybody have an (informed) opinion as to the feasibility of
parsing the acpi tables just enough to get what we need for boot-time
multiprocessor configuration, without having to implement all of acpi?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-05 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-05 2:45 erik quanstrom
2010-04-05 9:20 ` Richard Miller [this message]
2010-04-05 10:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-04-05 13:51 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-05 14:26 ` Richard Miller
2010-04-05 14:32 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-05 18:34 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-04-05 19:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-05 15:18 ` Brian L. Stuart
2010-04-05 15:18 ` ron minnich
2010-04-05 15:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-04-05 15:31 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-05 15:38 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-04-05 15:56 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-05 16:05 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-04-05 16:12 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-05 16:24 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
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2010-04-05 14:47 ` Artem Pylypchuk
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