From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932326AbVKWU2g (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:28:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932366AbVKWU1z (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:27:55 -0500 Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54]:16560 "EHLO mailwasher-b.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932356AbVKWU1t (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:27:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4384D07A.7030406@lanl.gov> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:26:34 -0700 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: yhlu , discuss@x86-64.org, linuxbios@openbios.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] x86_64: apic id lift patch References: <86802c440511211349t6a0a9d30i60e15fa23b86c49d@mail.gmail.com> <20051121220605.GD20775@brahms.suse.de> <43849FA5.4020201@lanl.gov> <20051123173504.GK20775@brahms.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20051123173504.GK20775@brahms.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: >>At the same time, we seem to be treading in territory where the fuctory >>BIOSes have not yet been. We're in the weird position, at times, of >>finding things out before the proprietary BIOSes get there. > > > You're saying that Arima machine only runs with LinuxBIOS so far? The Cray XD-1, opteron-based machine, is linuxbios only. Another machine, DRC, can only use linuxbios. Island/Aruma was mentioned. These are the three I know of, there may well be others. DRC used linuxbios because fuctory bios could not configure HT correctly in their application. (well, I know of one other, but can't tell you about it). ron