From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@amd.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dean Roe <roe@cray.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:56:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080129045659.GA31847@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801282012.47190.yinghai.lu@sun.com>
> also there are some users are using LinuxBIOS or other firmware that doesn't have or like ACPI support. but they still need numa.
> for them ACPI doesn't help.
We've had this discussion before. The right way even if you don't
want to do full ACPI is to do just the minimal static boot tables
and a SRAT. These are quite simple tables and should be easy to set up.
SRAT is essentially just a two dimensional table with node distances.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-29 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 20:11 [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c Joachim Deguara
2008-01-28 20:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 21:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-29 3:48 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-29 4:12 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-29 4:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-29 6:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-29 8:09 ` [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c II Andi Kleen
2008-01-29 7:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-29 8:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-29 8:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-01 15:58 ` dean gaudet
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