[syslinux] [PATCH 1/1] : Adding a new com32 module to handle cpu information

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Sep 5 16:00:42 PDT 2006


Erwan Velu wrote:
> 
> Note that SMP is just a manner to know if the bios annonce an MPTABLE.
> This code can't detect each processor.
> 

I think you need to at least detect that the MPTABLE contains more than 
one processor.  There are a fair number of uniprocessor machines which 
have MPTABLEs; especially since before ACPI it was the only way to 
support APIC.

	-hpa




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