From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760280AbXGWWLY (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:11:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752494AbXGWWKt (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:10:49 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:45592 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751603AbXGWWKs (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:10:48 -0400 From: Len Brown Organization: Intel Open Source Technology Center To: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] faking and fixing the NUMA SLIT Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:10:32 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Andi Kleen , "Joachim Deguara" , "lkml List" , gregkh@suse.de, travis@sgi.com, steiner@sgi.com References: <200707181130.01861.joachim.deguara@amd.com> <200707181142.20811.ak@suse.de> <20070723132526.5ce87f0d@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070723132526.5ce87f0d@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707231810.32983.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 23 July 2007 16:25, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:42:20 +0200 > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Don't think that is really useful. > > I think this is useful for NUMA debugging since one may use this to > create various slit configuration that can be useful to simulate many > fallback scenarios that may require testing. Why not build a new SLIT into the kernel for the test to override the BIOS -- like we do when we want a test version of the DSDT? -Len