Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 May 2004 09:16:51 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] [PATCH] Node Hotplug Support |
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> ACPI is used to do some hardware manipulation. > There is no general purpose interface to get hardware information > and manipulate hardware today, but hardware proprietary interfaces. > ACPI is one of them, and I decided to use it because: > > - Its spec is open. > - I can use it without any hardware special knowledge:)
You can't base platform-independant Linux code on ACPI, when not all NUMA boxes will support it. The fact that your particular box may support it doesn't make it a generally applicable idea ;-)
You need a better abstraction (and preferably one without the massive complexity whilst you're at it).
M.
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