Re: [BK PATCH] acpismp=force fix

From: Juan Quintela (quintela@trasno.org)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 10:42:29 EST


>>>>> "brown," == Brown, Len <len.brown@intel.com> writes:

Hi

brown,> To disable HT on a uni-processor, wouldn't it be preferable to simply run
brown,> the UP kernel rather than the SMP kernel with HT disabled? That leaves SMP
brown,> systems, where either the BIOS could disable it (it is a BIOS bug if it
brown,> can't), or as a last resort CONFIG_X86_HT (2.5) could be config'd out of the
brown,> kernel. I guess I've talked myself into not missing "noht" also.

noht is very useful for distributions, we already have to do a lot of
kernels, any option that "mandates" to compile a different kernel is
just bad (IMHO).

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy
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