On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:48:07AM +0100, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 18:24 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > I've been chasing a bug that got filed against the Fedora kernel > > a while back: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199052 > > This is a dual pentium pro from an era before we had ACPI, and > > it seems to be falling foul of this test in smpboot.c .. > > > > if (!smp_found_config && !acpi_lapic) { > > printk(KERN_NOTICE "SMP motherboard not detected.\n"); > > > > My initial reaction is that the !acpi_lapic test should be conditional > > on some variable that gets set if the ACPI parsing actually succeeded. > > acpi=off ? This is irrelevant. There are no acpi tables, so acpi will disable itself. > this machine should work with APM. Also irrelevant, as power management isn't the problem here. > BTW, so time ago, this > machine would enter in ACPI blacklist (by the year of bios) and ACPI was > turned off automatically. Finally, this machine has no DMI tables, so date blacklists are also useless. (Not that it matters anyway due to the lack of ACPI tables) Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
