On current trunk I get during boot: [ 0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached. Processor 4/0x84 ignored. [ 0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached. Processor 5/0x85 ignored. I don't think these messages make much sense on a 4-core machine. -- Markus -- 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