Bug#381937: /vmlinuz: Detects > 8 CPUs in my desktop system

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:04:40AM +0200, Johan Walles wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp
> Version: 2.6.16-17
> Severity: normal
> File: /vmlinuz
> 
> 
> Don't know how important this is, going with "normal".
> 
> I'm getting this in my syslog:
> kernel: More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it.
> kernel: Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH or CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz