On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Oh it is. And it's due to a recommendation Intel makes to bios writers.
> As a result, every P4 I've encountered shares this bug. Intel knows it's
> an invalid MP table, but refuses to change the recommendation.
Where's the recommendation? We might work it around somehow.
Alternatively we may just disable the SMP mode if the bootstrap CPU's
real ID contradits the one in the MP table.
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