Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:24:56 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Sylvain Jeaugey <sylvain.jeaugey@bull.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [DMESG] cpumask_t in action
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:13:11AM +0100, Sylvain Jeaugey wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> These lines show you the numa topology of your machine (in our case, we 
> have 2 CPUS per domain, and a memory area).
> This is quite a big piece of information about hardware. Even if it is 
> quite long, I think it should be part of the ACPI information.

Yes, but do we need to know it at boot time, or should it be available
in some other way (eg /proc/acpi/srat or something).  I would argue
that is more useful than seeing it in dmesg.

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