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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:52:58 -0700
From: yhlu <yinghailu@gmail.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: NUMA support for dual core Opteron
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Andi,

How do yo think about make x86-64 kernel support openfirmware interface?

Can we borrow some code from ppc64 arch?

YH


On 7/14/05, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 07:46:49PM -0700, yhlu wrote:
> > p.s. can you use powernow when acpi is disabled?
> 
> Only on uniprocessor machines.
> 
> > p.s.s  Is powerpc64 support ACPI? or ACPI is only can be used by x86?
> 
> powerpc64 uses openfirmware, not ACPI.
> 
> -Andi
>