Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262465AbUCHMTN (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:19:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262470AbUCHMTN (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:19:13 -0500 Received: from zero.aec.at ([193.170.194.10]:48901 "EHLO zero.aec.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262465AbUCHMTM (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:19:12 -0500 To: Len Brown Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Hyper-threaded pickle References: <1wfBD-6GI-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <1whjQ-8sH-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <1wMeo-Sr-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <1xlbI-6Rl-5@gated-at.bofh.it> From: Andi Kleen Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 04:35:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1xlbI-6Rl-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (Len Brown's message of "Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:10:10 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 612 Lines: 19 Len Brown 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/