Re: Hyper-threaded pickle

[Andi Kleen]

Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> > Re: old systems -- we use dmi_scan to disable ACPI on systems by default
>> > on systems older than 1/1/2001.
>> 
>> What happens for the no-DMI case?
>
> When DMI is not present, dmi_scan is a no-op -- so ACPI will run in

A box without DMI likely also doesn't have ACPI tables. I believe DMI
is older than ACPI.

-Andi

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