On Monday 16 November 2009 12:53:17 pm Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:40:18AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > On Friday 13 November 2009 06:38:38 am Fred Labrosse wrote: > > > So I did that (acpi_apic_instance=2) and that did give me 2 processors. > > > Which is definitely better, hence my email to the suggested address. > > > > I think we need a DMI or similar mechanism to do this automatically, > > so you don't need to use "acpi_apic_instance=2" every time you boot. > > Can you open a bug report at http://bugzilla.kernel.org, attach the > > output of dmidecode, and post the bug URL here? > > Ugh. Can we at least take a look at the differences and try to work out > why one works? I hate to keep making this point, but Windows doesn't > use whitelisting or blacklisting to any significant extent on modern > hardware. If it's booting properly and we're not, then it's because > we're doing something wrong. I agree; in fact, my reply included a line like "Why can Windows do this properly when Linux can't," but I deleted it because it seems like that's all I ever say :-) Bottom line from the user's point of view: having to use "acpi_apic_instance=2" is unacceptable. Bjorn -- 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
