On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> So, one would normally expect this to mean an SMP board rather than
> multiple processors, _HOWEVER_, I can imagine a very clever MP-aware BIOS
> implementation which detects that there are many processors and prepares
> MP floating config table and does _not_ prepare it otherwise. So, it all
> depends on the BIOS implementation.
I've seen systems that do so and while it's not forbidden I consider it a
bad thing. It prevents us from being able to use I/O APICs.
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