Re: [9fans] missing machs unearthed

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>]

There's an initial implementation of acpi, but it's not yet ready.
Getting boot-time MP info is not enough, the information regarding
bus/interrupt entries is provided in many cases by AML methods.

So, in short, you need all of acpi to get that information.
The good news is that it's implemented.
The bad news is that is does not work yet.
What remains to be done is to supply bus information to the kernel
correctly, and that's not happening as of today.


On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>> i've had a core i7 machine for some time with 4c/8t.
>> unfortunately, the mp table has only 4 processor entries.
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> My impression is that mp tables are getting worse and worse on new
> hardware because vendors assume everyone is running an acpi-aware OS.
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> 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?
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