> My only machine is a laptop, the ethernet card is broadcom, and from > searching thru the past threads, appears to be a thorn in everyone's > side. BCM44x I believe. If I can ever get "familiar" here, I'll have > to recompile it's kernel because if i'm reading the output right, > whilst I have a core duo chip, it only inits one of two, not that much > more power is required at present anyhow.
the live cd boots with 8259 interrupts (i.e. *nomp=1 in plan9.ini). this is for maximum compatability. since 8259 interrupts are not mp capable, the bsp (boot processor) doesn't turn up any aps (application processors). you're kernel doesn't need to be recompiled. - erik
