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

[ron minnich]

I thought ACPI was a superset of _MP_. I have a friend who claims not:

"0xffffffffffff0390 A P I C
Local APIC Address 0xfee00000, flags 0x00000001
type 0, length 8
ACPI Processor ID 1
APIC ID 0
Flags 0x00000001
type 0, length 8
ACPI Processor ID 2
APIC ID 1
Flags 0x00000001
type 0, length 8
ACPI Processor ID 3
APIC ID 2
Flags 0x00000001
type 0, length 8
ACPI Processor ID 4
APIC ID 3
Flags 0x00000001
type 1, length 12
I/O APIC ID 4
I/O APIC Address 0xfec00000
Global System Interrupt Base 0x00000000
type 1, length 12
I/O APIC ID 5
I/O APIC Address 0xfe6fe000
Global System Interrupt Base 0x00000018
type 1, length 12
I/O APIC ID 6
I/O APIC Address 0xfe6ff000
Global System Interrupt Base 0x0000001c
type 2, length 10
IRQ 0
Global System Interrupt 0x00000002
Flags 0x0000
type 2, length 10
IRQ 0
Global System Interrupt 0x00000002
Flags 0x0000


there's not enough info there to actually do anything."


Is he missing something? Is this old information? I'd like to know.

thanks

ron