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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:35:41 -0700
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box
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On 03/31/2010 08:16 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> OK... I think I'm going to write this up as unconfirmed... which means the only known problem that was not addressed in rc3 is the 32-bit NUMA issue, which we have a bug for.
> 
the 32 bit numa problem is one edge case (node0 doesn't have memory installed), 
and the problem has been there for a while before we introduce NO_BOOTMEM support.

Thanks

Yinghai