Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:03:41 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c |
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Andi Kleen wrote: >> also there are some users are using LinuxBIOS or other firmware that doesn't have or like ACPI support. but they still need numa. >> for them ACPI doesn't help. > > We've had this discussion before. The right way even if you don't > want to do full ACPI is to do just the minimal static boot tables > and a SRAT. These are quite simple tables and should be easy to set up. > SRAT is essentially just a two dimensional table with node distances. >
Indeed. Hacking everything into the kernel just because LinuxBIOS is braindead is NOT a good idea.
-hpa
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