SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Fri Mar 9 11:23:22 UTC 2007


Ivan Voras wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
>> Since I need it in production, I'll try i386 6.2-release+PAE...
> 
> Ok, PAE uniprocessor kernel boots fine, finds all the memory but I can't
> create (clone) a vlan device ("ifconfig vlan0 create"). It fails with an
> error in SIOCIFCREATE.
> 
> Since creating vlan0 worked in amd64 mode (and is probably
> 64-bit-friendly), is it a problem with PAE?

Ok, I found it - on a non-PAE system this works because ifconfig
automagically loads if_vlan.ko, but since there are no modules in PAE
kernel, this obviously fails... (so I'll build device vlan into the kernel)

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