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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: trenn@suse.de
Cc: "Éric Piel" <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
	dsdt@gaugusch.at, len.brown@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:53:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BE9B80.2090808@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203670297.4995.12.camel@queen.suse.de>


> Which is probably a good idea.
> AFAIK Numa, possibly Apic tables must be available quite early.

NUMA setup does not use the DSDT, but separate special tables
(SRAT/SLIT). It also doesn't require the ACPI interpreter, these
are all simple static tables.

-Andi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-22  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-10  7:12 acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-10  7:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-10 11:58   ` Eric Piel
2008-02-11 13:47     ` Sergey Vlasov
2008-02-11 23:41       ` Éric Piel
2008-02-21 19:02         ` [PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (was: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs) Éric Piel
2008-02-21 19:04           ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-21 21:27             ` [PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early Éric Piel
2008-02-23 19:40           ` [PATCH] Allow populate_rootfs() to be called early (resent, with sob) Éric Piel
2008-02-12  5:37     ` acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-21 18:46       ` Éric Piel
2008-02-22  8:51         ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-22  9:05           ` Thomas Renninger
2008-02-22  9:53           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-02-23 19:34         ` [PATCH] Use userland-like functions for reading the ACPI table Éric Piel
2008-02-23 20:45           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-24  1:31             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-24 19:02               ` Éric Piel

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