Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262969AbUCRVsr (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:48:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262980AbUCRVsr (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:48:47 -0500 Received: from lanshark.nersc.gov ([128.55.16.114]:62592 "EHLO lanshark.nersc.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262969AbUCRVsq (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:48:46 -0500 Message-ID: <405A1900.6020400@lbl.gov> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:47:44 -0800 From: Thomas Davis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark CC: lkml Subject: Re: Dual Athlon CPU detection.. References: <4059FCB9.4070204@lbl.gov> <200403181352.34737.mark@harddata.com> In-Reply-To: <200403181352.34737.mark@harddata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 21 Mark wrote: > > > AFAIK this information comes from the Bios. Some bioses don't verify that the > second CPU as being an MP. It's been known for some time. Some people were > using this to run 1 MP and 1 XP to save money on processors. However if you > were to update your bios, it might start checking both for being MPs. > Original bioses didn't even check for the first processor at one time but AMD > complained and the bioses were modified. > ah, yes, that's right. I checked - stupid bios. Thanks! thomas - 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/