Re: invalid SMP mptable on Toshiba Satellite 2430-301

[Jochen Voss]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:40:16AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jochen Voss wrote:
> > Herbert Xu produced a patch, which converts the crash into an error
> > message, so the symptoms are cured for me.
> 
> Ok. That panic is obviously crud from a lazy initial developer, and yes, 
> it's always silly (and very very wrong) to crash if you can just continue.
> 
> Can you send the (tested) patch over?

Herbert sent it to the list (Subject: [i386] Remove bogus panic calls
in mpparse.c).  You can find the corresponding message under

    http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.1/0879.html

> I really think that the Linux behaviour i smore of a bug than the BIOS 
> behaviour. There's no excuse for panicing just because some signature 
> for a data block that we don't even strictly need isn't there.

With the patch the crash goes away, but I get the error message

    BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!...
    ... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor)

now.  I guess that means no hyperthreading for me :-(

Jochen
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