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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:11:46 +0530
From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fake NUMA emulation for PowerPC (Take 2)
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* Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> [2008-01-18 16:34:53]:

> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 04:07 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > Changelog
> > 
> > 1. Get rid of the constant 5 (based on comments from
> >                                 Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com)
> > 2. Implement suggestions from Olof Johannson
> > 3. Check if cmdline is NULL in fake_numa_create_new_node()
> > 
> > Tested with additional parameters from Olof
> > 
> > numa=debug,fake=
> > numa=foo,fake=bar
> 
> 
> I'm not sure why yet, but git bisect tells me it's this patch that's
> causing the for-2.6.25 tree to explode on boot on cell machines.
>

Hi,

Do you boot with numa=<options> on your machine? Could I have your
machine configuration? Any OOPS/log would be helpful.

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL