Re: SMP stability issues
"Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:52:55 -0500
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Patrick Welche <[email protected]> writes: > 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.. Indeed. I've had horrible instability trying to do installs without ACPI on a few times. Anyway, I think the general message is "if your machine has ACPI, try things with ACPI on if you're having problems -- manufacturers aren't testing non-ACPI very well any more." Perry