From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from baldric (baldric.uwo.ca [129.100.10.225]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4760495A for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:18:41 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:17:54 -0400 From: Carlos O'Donell To: James Bottomley Cc: Grant Grundler , PARISC list Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [parisc-linux-cvs] linux carlos Message-ID: <20030826171753.GC32302@systemhalted> References: <3F2E2C7700004E38@ocpmta2.freegates.net> <20030825164553.GB28778@dsl2.external.hp.com> <1061830247.2044.165.camel@mulgrave> <20030825191915.GA377@dsl2.external.hp.com> <1061840921.2044.368.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1061840921.2044.368.camel@mulgrave> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > Realistically, "logical" just means we make up a numbering scheme > independent of what the HW tells us. If the HW isn't telling us > anything, then us telling the HW is fine. > > The gist of the "no more logical mappings edict" is that basically we > only have one source for CPU numbers (and it can be sparse) rather than > two, one of which was usually compact. I sense a Monty Python skit about '0 CPUs found' :) HW: So how many we got today? SW: Oh, zero. HW: Zero?! SW: Yeah, zaro CPU's found. HW: Do you have an accent? ... c.