Re: Disabling ACPI also implicitly disables SMP support for Intel Atom chips?

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it a given that disabling ACPI also disables SMP (well, really SMT,
> technically) with Intel Atom chips?  (Or others?)  The i386 boot prompt
> offers the choice of disabling ACPI only, but when I choose it on my
> LG X110 netbook, the kernel doesn't recognize the HT capabilities of
> the CPU.  In order to get SMP, I have to enable ACPI.  Is this
> something I should PR, or is it just the nature of things here?  (This
> is with 5.0 RC2, incidentally.)

Does your motherboard have MP BIOS extensions (the fallback when ACPI 
isn't enabled)? I suspect not.