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
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