Re: SMP stability issues

Patrick Welche <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:48:13 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:16:52PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Chris Rendle-Short <[email protected]> writes:
> > I haven't tried GENERIC.MPACPI yet. As I understood it is mainly
> > intended for duel core systems and systems with HT.
> 
> Not really -- it is for machines that have ACPI. In general, I've been
> finding of late that many ACPI supporting boxes just don't run right
> if you don't use ACPI...

.. to the extent of often needing to build custom INSTALL kernels
with acpi on i386..

Cheers,

Patrick