[coreboot] is ACPI a superset of _MP_ or not?

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 07:04:23 CET 2008


On Feb 9, 2008 9:51 PM, yhlu <yinghailu at gmail.com> wrote:

> and linux kernel will use ACPI table with DSDT and use MP Table to get
> irq routing for devices.

So that means that ACPI is not a superset of _MP_. If you need both
tables, then ACPI can not be a proper superset.

Which means we can not build a machine with only an ACPI table -- we
need both ACPI and _MP_ tables.

Thanks, that was my question.

ron




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