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Subject: RE: 2.6.16rc5 'found' an extra CPU.
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:37:09 -0500
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Thread-Topic: 2.6.16rc5 'found' an extra CPU.
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From: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
To: "Dave Jones" <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "Chuck Ebbert" <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
       "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "linux-acpi" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
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>On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:26:24PM -0500, Brown, Len wrote:
> > Dave,
> > Your DSDT looks fine.
> > I was wrong assuming there were 3 Processor entries there.
> > 
> > > > Did you really build a 256-CPU SMP kernel or is ACPI 
> > > > ignoring CONFIG_NR_CPUS or something?
> > >
> > >Yes, it's =256.
> > 
> > I expect this is the root problem.
>
>If this is the _cause_, something needs fixing, but it's hardly
>something we can brush off as 'the root problem'.
>
>It's entirely possible for such a configuration (higher
>CONFIG_NR_CPUS than actual cpus), cf. distro kernels.

I agree.
Did Ashok's sigined-unsigned patch work?
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