From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:06:22 +0000 Subject: Re: PXM/Nid/SLIT patch Message-Id: <20040218190622.GN13235@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <40321CF7.5020301@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <40321CF7.5020301@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:56:48PM -0500, Robert Picco wrote: > >I know HP basically owns the IA64 ports, but honestly can't you fix > >the firmware to return sane information instead? i.e. move the above > >fix to firmware instead of letting linux fixup the reported data. > > Well some of us would like to see this too. Some legacy requirements > from our other supported OSes require this to be the default > configuration. Perhaps a different default can be made in the future or > some IPMI tool to change the default. Ah, that explains it, it's what I expected (I've heard of other NUMA boxes that do this too). Hmm... Jesse