Re: SMP with Intel P4 HT processor & kernel 2.6.7

[Clement <clement@ans.com.au>]

botio wrote:

> Clement wrote:
>
>  
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> > I can boot up with kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 but not
> > kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp.  The booting just half soon after
> > starting. Can you give me some suggestions?
> >
> > The hardware is, Intel m/b w 875r chip set and P4-2.8GHz processor.
> >
> >    
>
> I have this problem too on a intel d865perl, it'related to ACPI.
> have a look here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125841
>
> there is a patch at comment #49.
>  

Thank you very much.  That thread of discussion (or bug report) explain 
very well what I have experienced.   Now the patch is included in the 
Redhat kernel.  Does anyone know when this patch will be incorporated 
into the Debian kernel release?

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Regards,
Clement