On 4/3/07, Christian Kujau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Although it's not as bad with servers, many machines are designed to run only
> Windows (which normally always uses ACPI) and simply aren't tested well or at
> all with ACPI disabled so you can run into a lot of problems which are just
> bugs in the BIOS, etc.
I only thought it was the other way around: less (active, used) code -
less bug (caused by strange ACPI implementations). But I can see your
point.
We have a bunch of servers here where Linux will only see one core per
processor unless ACPI is enabled.
Lee
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