Bug 2815

Summary:	Fix acpi=ht in x86_64
Product:	ACPI	Reporter:	Suresh B Siddha (suresh.b.siddha)
Component:	Config-Tables	Assignee:	Len Brown (lenb)
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	acpi-bugzilla
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.6	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	Patch which fixes acpi=ht behaviour

Description Suresh B Siddha 2004-06-01 19:43:17 UTC

In x86 kernel "acpi=ht" boot parameter means -- run only enough ACPI to enable 
Hyper Threading.

This is broken in x86_64 kernel. "acpi=ht" still runs complete ACPI.

Comment 1 Suresh B Siddha 2004-06-01 19:45:46 UTC

Created attachment 3039 [details]
Patch which fixes acpi=ht behaviour

Comment 2 Len Brown 2007-02-16 15:16:17 UTC

this was fixed sometimes before 2.6.20
when the early_param stuff went in.
closed.