Re: 2.6.14.2 detects only one processor (out of 2)

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 01:41:00 EST


On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Robert Hancock wrote:

> Philippe Pegon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > try with acpi enabled, it works for me. It's seem that recent kernel (since
> > 2.6.12) need acpi for SMP.
>
> It should not - if it does this is a bug, as SMP motherboards that do not
> support ACPI will not work.

Looks like we got rid of CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT, his particular system has an
incomplete mptable and requires ACPI for proper processor enumeration.
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