>> i feel your pain. i have a new motherboard with some bad entries in the mp >> table, too. > > Not surprising. What we see, all the time, is that the mobo makers > just barely understand these tables, and usually get them quite wrong. > We've also seen cases where the MP table for one board was used, > verbatim, on a very different board. Finally, the vendors are always > willing to rewire bits of the board, but don't quite get around to > updating the table. > > Short form: PC hardware is crap.
i'm not casting aspersions. i've had good luck with getting corrected bios in the few times i've had trouble on server motherboards. i think the problem is that mp interrupts are hard and need to be constructed at bios runtime to account for the topology of add in cards and bridges. - erik
