From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:25:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [Discontig-devel] Re: 2.6.0 test3 does not boot on ia64 NUMA Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:13:07PM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:39:32PM +0200, Xavier Bru wrote: > > > > I tried to put find_memory() after acpi_numa_init() as in 2.5.72, but > > now we get: > > bootmem alloc of 100 bytes failed! in acpi_table_init() > > that now uses the bootmem allocator. > > > > I wonder what should be the right order for initialisation, and if > > there are ia64 platforms running 2.6.0 with CONFIG_NUMA. Any help is > > apreciated. > > Jesse Barnes has an unreleased patch to make SGI SN2 work, which does > move the find_memory() after acpi_numa_init(). There is another patch, > which I've attached, which removes the bootmem alloc of memory in ACPI. I talked with Andy Grover about this and I think he agreed to remove the alloc_bootmem calls from ACPI table initialization, so we should be ok once that gets merged into Linus' tree. I'll double check with Andy when I get back. Jesse