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From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:50:58 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:37:45 -0500
Subject: Re: SMP system not running SMP 
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In message <20060626175058.GD89842@dragon.NUXI.org>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:07:22AM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
>> There are two possible paths to fixing this:  One is to make SMP work
>> without ACPI.

>Impossible.  The AMD64 64-bit platform has ACPI by definition from AMD.

Okay.

>Its the same as asking if you could make booting work without a PC BIOS.

Well, uhm.  You can in some cases.  :)

In that case, though, I guess it's a question of finding out what about the
Adaptec SCSI controller and ACPI is killing the system.

-s