On Tue Feb 22 15:58:12 EST 2011, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: > > the madt table or the mp tables reflect a snaphot of *all* > > the i/o apics and lapics in the system at the time when bios handed > > control over to the operating system (sic.). > > No it doesn't. That's the bug in the BIOS -- it screws up building > the table. I have an Intel mini-ITX board sitting in a box because > it's unuseable due to this bug.
by definition, a bug in your bios doesn't change the specification, - erik
