On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >> i've had a core i7 machine for some time with 4c/8t. >> unfortunately, the mp table has only 4 processor entries. > > My impression is that mp tables are getting worse and worse on new > hardware because vendors assume everyone is running an acpi-aware OS. >
that's precisely the problem. We've seen cases where vendors too bioses from an old machine to a new machine. If you are not acpi aware you are pretty much 5 years out of date. > Does anybody have an (informed) opinion as to the feasibility of > parsing the acpi tables just enough to get what we need for boot-time > multiprocessor configuration, without having to implement all of acpi? Extremely doable. ron
