Strangest thing I've found with my BP6 is when MPS is set to 1.4 my
memory bandwidth (as shown via hdparm) is haved. Switching it to 1.1
"solves" it.
Brian Macy
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
>
> > > > Does the MPS version matter? When I set the MPS version control option
> > > > to 1.4 in the bios setup, the kernel still reports the MPS version as 1.4.
> > > > Is this a problem with the BP6 bios?
> > >
> > > The BIOS may well report both when 1.1 is set. Its fine don't worry about it
> >
> > I think he meant to say, when it is set to either 1.1 or 1.4 in the BIOS,
> > the kernel reports MPS 1.1. At least my BP6 does (running 2.2.13).
>
> this depends on the BIOS. No problem either way - even if it reports 1.1,
> the important thing is wether you get higher than 16 IRQs in
> /proc/interrupts.
>
> -- mingo
>
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