Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751383AbWCLFGP (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:06:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751389AbWCLFGP (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:06:15 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:27799 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751383AbWCLFGO (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:06:14 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:03:53 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Krzysztof Oledzki Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it on 2.6.16-rc6 Message-Id: <20060311210353.7eccb6ed.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 18 Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: > > After upgrading to 2.6.16-rc6 I noticed this strange message: > > More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it. > Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH or CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP. > > This is a Dell PowerEdge SC1425 with two P4 Xeons with HT enabled (so with > totoal of 4 logical CPUs). Please send full dmesg output for the failing kernel, thanks. Which is the most-recently-tested kernel which behaved correctly? - 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/