Am 07.10.11 20:48, schrieb Karl Auerbach:
> 
>>> The reason OpenBSD works now with the stock BIOS is that I on purpose 
>>> have incorrect checksum in the mptable, openBSD check it and don't use 
>>> the mptable, FreeBSD ignore the checksum error and use the mptable....
>>
>> What does NetBSD do?
> 
> Don't know about NetBsd, but Linux generates some warnings about the
> checksum and then proceeds to run with only a single processor/thread.

Actually I'd like to get a statement from Soren here.  He is crippling
the BIOS to satisfy one particular OS, while other OS'es that maybe do
the right.

> 
> (I'm not sure this is related, but my Linux kernel is not seeing the
> HPET timer that I thought was in the chipsets used on the net6501.)
> 
>       --karl--
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