Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:03:41 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c | |
Andi Kleen wrote:
>> also there are some users are using LinuxBIOS or other firmware that doesn't have or like ACPI support. but they still need numa.
>> for them ACPI doesn't help.> > We've had this discussion before. The right way even if you don't
> want to do full ACPI is to do just the minimal static boot tables
> and a SRAT. These are quite simple tables and should be easy to set up.
> SRAT is essentially just a two dimensional table with node distances.
>
Indeed. Hacking everything into the kernel just because LinuxBIOS is
braindead is NOT a good idea.
-hpa
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