TimH wrote:
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> I just got a semi-new HP laptop and it fails to boot unless I disable
> acpi.  This isn't a big deal in itself, but it seems that it doesn't
> use both cores of the CPU when this is done.  Is this normal?

Yes, normal, newer systems lack the legacy Intel MP mappings.. so if you
disable ACPI there is no information available that the kernel can use.

Not booting is a bug, in either in the ACPI tables or OpenBSD, you
should report it.. and run the SP kernel until then.

Check for BIOS updates, as well.

-Bryan.