Re: SMP stability issues

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:16:52PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> Chris Rendle-Short <jim@...> writes:
> > I haven't tried GENERIC.MPACPI yet. As I understood it is mainly
> > intended for duel core systems and systems with HT.
>
> Not really -- it is for machines that have ACPI. In general, I've been
> finding of late that many ACPI supporting boxes just don't run right
> if you don't use ACPI...

.. to the extent of often needing to build custom INSTALL kernels
with acpi on i386..

Cheers,

Patrick