On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:38, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > The reason the Soekris net6501 has hw.ncpufound=1 in bsd.rd is > stupid. The net6501 has MP BIOS, but not ACPI. Only the GENERIC > (thus also GENERIC.MP) and RAMDISK kernels on amd64 and i386 include > mpbios(4), RAMDISK_CD doesn't. > > Is there any reason we don't have mpbios(4) in RAMDISK_CD? Are > there space constraints to consider? It looks like an accidental > omission to me.
I think there is some concern that the mpbios is wrong on many machines with acpi?
